Anyone who has worked with IBM i knows how important disk I/O is to system performance. You can throw a 60,000 CPW, IBM Power System running IBM i, flat on its back if it’s not given the disk resources it needs to read and write at a pace greater then what the user demands. The…
Can Your Business Survive a Disaster?
Here at Arbor Solutions, we’re in the middle of several High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) implementations for several clients, each one different from the rest. They include full HA and DR replication hot sites as well as hosted solutions. So, when a local event happened here the other day, it caused me to…
Network Provider Expands Data Centers
US Signal has been a valued partner of ours for the last several years. Their robust network and distributed data centers have been assets to our customers, providing quality bandwidth and carrier quality data center facilities across the midwest. It’s encouraging to us, and our client base, to see that they are increasing their data…
My three favorite IBM Power8 configurations for Mid-sized businesses running IBM i.
For those who don’t know me yet, my name is Richie Palma and I work for an IBM BP in Grand Rapids Michigan. I’m most likely 15 to 20 years younger than the average IBM i enthusiast, which puts me in a fairly unique position. I’m blessed to work with customers that are using both…
Welcome to Arbor Solutions – Video
Arbor Solutions is a Grand Rapids Michigan based I.T. solutions provider and IBM Business Partner offering IBM Power Systems, IBM i, AIX, and Linux O/S, Licensing & Maintenance, Application Development Services (PHP, RPG, SQL, Java, JavaScript, .NET, & VB), Systems Engineering, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Hosting & Co-Location Services, Cloud (IBM i, AIX, & Linux…