What is High Availability? High availability refers to a system’s ability to remain operational and accessible over a long period. This involves minimizing downtime and ensuring that services continue even during hardware failures, network issues, or other disruptions. High availability is typically measured by the “five nines” standard, meaning 99.999% uptime, which equates to just…
Exploring the Power of IBM FlashSystem
At the end of the day, data is the lifeblood of organizations. We can use this data to drive innovation, to have unique insights, and even to have a competitive advantage on competition: but only if we know what to do with this data. Managing and extracting value from ever-growing data volumes presents a significant…
Shocking… IBM i Cost of Storage beyond the CEC: EXP24S or V3700 SAN?
As data, and company’s overall demand for data increases at a staggering rate, many of my IBM i customers who have always relied solely on the internal storage capacity of their base server (Also known as the CEC), are being forced to expand outside of their IBM Power System chassis. I believe this has been…
Out growing your IBM Power system internal disk? Expansion drawer or Bigger Drives?
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 efficiency in IT be perceived as a lack of innovation by the business?
Can high efficiency in IT be perceived as a lack of innovation by the business? I think its best that we start by defining the key words in our title. Efficiency – accomplishment of or ability to accomplish a job with a minimum expenditure of time and effort: Perceived – to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the…