The purpose of this blog is to briefly highlight the 7 key benefits of online cloud backup. Tape management can be distracting and is prone to failure. Online backup is an excellent way to mitigate this risk and expense. Disclaimer: iSeries and AS400 are servers. IBM i is an operating system. I use them interchangeably to make it easier for folks to find this kind of information when searching on the web. In my blog last week, I wrote about an IBM iSeries user that had a hardware … [Read more...]
What is IBM PowerVM? (And Why Should You Care?)
Server Virtualization Many may know that IBM introduced server virtualization for its mainframe in the early 1980’s. Many of you also may have heard of VMware or Microsoft’s Hyper-V to virtualize an Intel server. Well, PowerVM is IBM’s server virtualization software for IBM i (iSeries/AS400). PowerVM For IBM i Virtualization PowerVM lets you allocate the server memory, storage and performance resources into smaller virtual servers, or Logical Partitions, also called LPARs. The … [Read more...]