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IBM, I.R.I.S.-ICT, Belgium, Storage, Expo, System x, Ans America, DFSMS, z/OS, System z, mainframe, Veeam, Arrow, Huawei

Wrapping up my coverage of the 2013 IT Security and Storage Expo in Belgium, I noticed some interesting things in the other booths. The EMC booth had a whiteboard so that clients could do some one-on-one collaboration. All of their cocktail waitresses...

Published Sat, Mar 30 2013 5:07 AM by az990tony

Filed under: ibm, storage, NetApp, HDS, EMC, Linux, Windows, I.R.I.S.-ICT, Belgium, Expo, FreeNAS, STS, AIX, Fortinet, Hitachi, Aerohive, Data ONTAP, Solaris
Meet the Experts Reception at the Belgium IT Security and Storage Expo

Continuing my coverage of the IT Security and Storage Expo in Brussels, Belgium, we had a nice reception Wednesday evening. Clara handed out Ceasar Chicken salads. Joelle handed out small rolled up pieces of duck. Ilsa is an IBM expert in System x, VMware...

Published Thu, Mar 28 2013 5:06 AM by az990tony

Filed under: ibm, mainframe, storage, system x, DFSMS, z/OS, I.R.I.S.-ICT, Belgium, Expo, Veeam, Arrow, Ans America, Huawei, System z
Storage Solutions at the IBM and I.R.I.S.-ICT Booth for the Belgium IT Security and Storage Expo

Continuing my coverage of the IT Security and Storage Expo in Brussels, Belgium, we had some great storage solutions on display at the IBM and I.R.I.S-ICT booth. Here my IBM colleague Tom Provost is showing the front of the "Smarter Office"...

Published Wed, Mar 27 2013 5:04 PM by az990tony

Filed under: ibm, vmware, storage, FCoE, PureFlex, PureSystems, NFS, CIFS, Hyper-V, I.R.I.S.-ICT, Belgium, Expo, Veeam, Juniper Networks, tape library, SFF, LCM, SCP, HTTPS, FCP, Linux KVM, XIV Gen3, RDX, Tom Provost, TS3500, Flex System, iSCSI, FTP
My Presentations at the Belgium IT Security and Storage Expo

Continuing my coverage of the IT Security and Storage Expo in Brussels, Belgium, here is my post on the presentations I gave during the week. There were four presentations each day. Of the five rooms, I was assigned one room in which to give all of my...

Published Tue, Mar 26 2013 11:36 PM by az990tony

Filed under: Jeff Jonas, ibm, big data, storage, smartcloud, HSM, Harley Puckett, Chris Saul, Active Cloud Engine, HA, Marisol Diaz, BC, Tiering, Tom Deutsch, Easy Tier, I.R.I.S.-ICT, Iliana Garcia, Ron Riffe, Jon Toigo, DR, Joe Hayward, Jack Arnold, Belgium, Brigitte Van Den Eynde, Steve McKinney, Replication, Storwize V3700, Expo
Did You Miss IBM Pulse 2013?

Did you miss IBM Pulse 2013 this week? I wasn't there either, having scheduled visits with clients in Washington DC this week, only to have those meetings cancelled due to the [ U.S. sequestration cuts ]. Fortunately, there are plenty of videos and...

Published Tue, Mar 12 2013 10:45 PM by az990tony

Filed under: IT Storage, IBM Storage, IT cloud, IBM Pulse 2013, IBM Storage Interview at Pulse 2013
IBM Announces SmartCloud Storage

Well, it was Tuesday again, and we had quite a lot of announcements here at IBM this week! Over 1,800 clients attended the [ Live February 5 webcast ]! The announcements were all part of IBM's SmartCloud Storage portfolio. Here are the highlights...

Published Wed, Feb 13 2013 6:25 AM by az990tony

Filed under: ibm, smartcloud storage, IT cloud, smart cloud, storage cloud
STORSever Enterprise Backup Appliances based on IBM hardware and Tivoli Storage Manager

Recently, I spoke with Jarrett Potts, my long-time friend and former IBM colleague, who now works as Director of Strategic Marketing over at STORServer. If you have never heard of STORServer, it is a company that makes purpose-built backup appliances...

Published Wed, Feb 13 2013 1:18 AM by az990tony

Filed under: storage, system storage, tivoli storage manager, IT, ibm storserver, Data Management
On the Future of Hyperconnectivity

Wrapping up this week's theme on the future, fellow blogger David Spark has a great post on his SparkMinute blog titled [ 20 Brilliant Minds on the future of Hyperconnectivity ]. ( What does this have to do with Storage? When IBM got back into networking...

Published Tue, Jan 8 2013 3:24 AM by az990tony

Filed under: ibm, David Spark, After Broadband, Hyperconnectivity, Bran Ferren, networking, Applied Minds
Full Disk Encryption for Your Laptop

I had an interesting query about my last blog post [ Enterprise Systems are Security-Ready ], basically asking me what I decided to do for Full-Disk Encryption (FDE) for my laptop. Earlier this year, IBM mandated that every employee provided a laptop...

Published Fri, Dec 14 2012 2:54 AM by az990tony

Filed under: ibm, encryption, FDE, LUKS, Linux, PGP, Windows
Enterprise Systems are Security-Ready

My October blog post [ New IBM PureData Systems help clients harness data for critical insights ] included a video on Enterprise Systems being "Data Ready" for analytics. That was the first of a series of videos I filmed in Austin. Here is the...

Published Tue, Dec 11 2012 2:50 AM by az990tony

Filed under: ibm, DS8000, Protect, TS1120, Security Ready, security, encryption, LTO-4, FDE
Mark Your Calendars - IBM Storage Events for 2013

Mark your calednars! The dates are now official for IBM storage-related events in 2013. I know many of you plan your travel budgets early in the year, so I hope this will help you plan accordingly. [ IBM Pulse 2013 ] will be held March 3-6, 2013, at the...

Published Mon, Dec 10 2012 2:49 AM by az990tony

Filed under: ibm, las vegas, Edge2013, Pulse2013, storage conference
Five Gift Ideas for Cyber Monday

I hope all of my American readers had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! The day after Thanksgiving is "Black Friday", the unofficial starting data for shopping for upcoming holiday presents and decorations. The Monday after that is now often...

Published Mon, Nov 26 2012 1:14 AM by az990tony

Filed under: ibm, PureSystems, XIV, Cyber Monday, Thanksgiving, Tucson Fun & Adventures, 55 Fiction, IBM Watson, Black Friday
IBM announces new Storage for Small and Medium Size Business workloads

Well, it's Tuesday again, and you know what that means! IBM Announcements! Today also happens to be [ Election Day ] in the United States, and some have questioned IBM's logic of making major storage announcements on Election Day. During the campaigns...

Published Tue, Nov 6 2012 1:25 AM by az990tony

Filed under: ts3100, ts1140 ts2260, storwize+v7000, ltfs-sde ts2900, ltfs-le ts3200, ltfs ibm midrange flashcop, y ts3500, ts2360 lto-6, sto, rwize+v3700, ts3310
Upcoming Webcasts for Smarter Storage

We have some exciting webcasts in the upcoming weeks! Smarter Enterprises Need Smarter Storage In this [ InformationWeek webcast ], my IBM colleague Allen Marin will present a brief overview of IBM Smarter Storage for the enterprise with a focus on new...

Published Fri, Oct 19 2012 11:07 PM by az990tony

Filed under: ibm, smarter computing, Tommy Rickard, Allen Marin, Brian Truskowski, Ed Walsh, Smarter Storage
New IBM PureData Systems help clients harness data for critical insights

Well it's Tuesday, and you know what that means! IBM Announcements! Actually, it is Wednesday, but I started writing this post yesterday, and had to do some additional research to finish. This week, IBM introduced the newest member of the PureSystems...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2012 2:37 AM by az990tony

Filed under: PureFlex, IBM PureData System, PureApplication, IBM PureSystems, IBM Product Announcements

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IBM, I.R.I.S.-ICT, Belgium, Storage, Expo, System x, Ans America, DFSMS, z/OS, System z, mainframe, Veeam, Arrow, Huawei

Meet the Experts Reception at the Belgium IT Security and Storage Expo

Storage Solutions at the IBM and I.R.I.S.-ICT Booth for the Belgium IT Security and Storage Expo

My Presentations at the Belgium IT Security and Storage Expo

Did You Miss IBM Pulse 2013?

IBM Announces SmartCloud Storage

STORSever Enterprise Backup Appliances based on IBM hardware and Tivoli Storage Manager

On the Future of Hyperconnectivity

Full Disk Encryption for Your Laptop

Enterprise Systems are Security-Ready

Mark Your Calendars - IBM Storage Events for 2013

Five Gift Ideas for Cyber Monday

IBM announces new Storage for Small and Medium Size Business workloads

Upcoming Webcasts for Smarter Storage

New IBM PureData Systems help clients harness data for critical insights

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