Archive for December, 2009
IBM Power 550 Overview
Highlights
* For UNIX®, IBM i (formerly known as i5/OS®) and Linux® ERP/CRM application servers
* For mid-size database servers
* For consolidation of UNIX, IBM i, and x86 Linux workloads
* For medium to large-sized businesses running the IBM i operating system
The [...]
IBM Power 520 Overview
Highlights
* For distributed UNIX®, IBM i (formerly known as i5/OS®) and Linux® ERP/CRM application servers
* For small database servers
* For small scale consolidation servers for UNIX, IBM i and Linux workloads
* For a complete business system with an integrated [...]
Spectrum recommends IBM Compliance Expert for AIX security…
Highlights
* Easily set dozens of AIX security configuration settings to match external compliance standards
* Includes profiles with recommended system settings for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard and the US Department of Defense Security Technical Implementation Guide
* Simple command line interface minimizes [...]
Spectrum reduces power costs with Active Energy Manager
Overview
IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ Version 4.2 measures, monitors, and manages the power and thermal components built into IBM systems enabling a cross-platform management solution. Active Energy Manager extends the scope of energy management to include non-IBM systems and facility providers to enable a more complete view of energy consumption within the datacenter. It [...]
IBM Systems Director… need help? Contact Spectrum
IBM Systems Director® 6.1 is the single point of control to manage your data center. It integrates IBM’s best-of-breed virtualization capabilities to provide new and radically improved ways to simplify the management of physical and virtual platform resources. A key feature of Systems Director is a consistent user interface focused on driving common tasks. IBM [...]
Trusted AIX – Call us to secure your AIX platform today!
Introduction to Trusted AIX
Trusted AIX® enhances the security of the standard AIX operating system by providing for label-based-security capabilities within the operating system.
Trusted AIX label-based environment can be installed by choosing the install time options. If you install Trusted AIX, you will not be able to go back to a regular AIX environment without performing [...]
GPFS v3.3.0.3 now available
Announcing the availability of the service level 3.3.0.3 for all GPFS v3.3 products.
The service level is available at:
GPFS download site
This service level addresses the below issues. This is not a definitive list as other minor corrections have been made which are not listed here.
* On x86_64 Linux when special encoding flag [...]
IBM Power Systems Announcement Overview Oct 09
Power Systems Announcements Highlights
Systems for a smarter planet: A workload optimized approach to system design, management and delivery:
Virtualization
Introducing the next generation of virtualization management with VMControl Enterprise Edition
Extending IBM i SAN, integrated storage, and storage virtualization options
Enabling lower cost consolidation & virtualization with Fibre Channel over Ethernet
Business Resiliency
Manage risk and reduce cost of meeting changing [...]
IBM PowerVM Active Memory Sharing
IBM PowerVM™ provides industrial-strength virtualization for Power Systems™ servers running AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® operating systems. PowerVM now features Active Memory Sharing, the technology that allows you to intelligently exchange memory between running partitions for increased optimization of physical memory resources. Active Memory Sharing enables the sharing of a pool of physical memory among [...]
AIX 6.1 Workload Partitions – ask us how…
If you are a systems administrator who is responsible for care and feeding of IBM® System p™ servers, you are probably familiar with virtualization and server consolidation using logical partitions (LPARs). Using the Hardware Management Console (HMC) or the Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM), you can quickly define a new LPAR, install AIX® or Linux®, configure [...]
