I used to sell Itanium based systems running HP-UX back during my time at HP in the early 2000s so I have fond memories of how I was able to compete with confidence, knowing that I had a robust solution … Continue reading Death of HP-UX and Itanium

Breaking News: According to numerous top tier press articles literally, dozens of high-profile checkmark verified accounts, including those of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian West, and Elon Musk as well as prominent Bitcoiners seemed to be compromised by … Continue reading Twitter Hack – How it could have been avoided

In the 2nd part of this two-part mini-series, I plan to cover how LinuxONE is a credible alternative to Oracle Exadata. If you want to read part 1 of the blog series where I covered the demise of Oracle’s SPARC based … Continue reading Alternatives to Oracle Hardware Platforms – Part 2

This is the first part of a 2 part mini-series covering the transition clients are making from Oracle hardware platforms to more open source-based systems. This first blog will cover the demise of Oracle SPARC based systems running Solaris Since the … Continue reading Alternatives to Oracle Hardware Platforms – Part 1

Confused? You have been We’ve all heard of 20:20 vision. The ultimate in clarity. Ironic then perhaps that 2020 is rapidly becoming the year for confusion and chaos and that we’re all secretly begging for 2021 to make haste. Not … Continue reading Have you fixed your view?

In parts 1 and 2 of this blog series Steven Dickens covered his views on when to buy LinuxONE and when not to.  In this blog, I plan to cover a more technical perspective on where LinuxONE is a good … Continue reading 9 out of 10 times you should NOT buy LinuxONE – Part 3

Today’s IT organisations are still managing in-house infrastructure and applications while also being asked to manage ever-increasing business demands and deal with external challenges that a few months ago were not even on the radar oftentimes without additional resources. Many … Continue reading LinuxONE the perfect choice for your UNIX migration

In the first blog of this 2-part mini-series I put forward the analogy that choosing server and cloud consumption models was analogous to transportation. Commodity x86 servers were the car in my analogy, public cloud was represented by Uber and … Continue reading 9 times out of 10 you should NOT buy LinuxONE – Part 2

Don’t worry this is not a clickbait blog post where we pivot from the title that got you to click in the first paragraph, I am serious, you should NOT buy a LinuxONE server from IBM for 90% of your IT … Continue reading 9 times out of 10 you should NOT buy LinuxONE – Part 1

You will have seen a lot from me recently on LinkedIn and Twitter promoting the Hyper Protect Database as a service offering from IBM Cloud so, in this blog I wanted to provide a little more context than 280 characters … Continue reading Delivering the most secure cloud