IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX) use cases
IBM Z

Draft Redbooks, last updated 31 Aug 2020

Is it time for you to modernize your IBM z/OS® applications to allow for access to an entire ecosystem of open source and Linux on IBM® Z workloads? Is co-location of these workloads on the z/OS platform with no porting requirements of value to you? Your existing open source or Linux on IBM Z® software can benefit from being co-located and managed inside a z/OS environment; leveraging z/OS quality of service for optimized business continuity. Your software can be integrated with and can help complement existing z/OS workloads and environments. If your software can communicate with z/OS and ... [more]

IBM Power System IC922 Technical Overview and Introduction
Power Systems

Redpaper, published 2 Mar 2020, last updated 28 Aug 2020

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This IBM® Redpaper publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power System IC922 (9183-22X) server that uses IBM POWER9™ processor-based technology and supports Linux operating systems (OSs). The objective of this paper is to introduce the system offerings and their capacities and available features. The Power IC922 server is built to deliver powerful computing, scaling efficiency, and storage capacity in a cost-optimized design to meet the evolving data challenges of the artificial intelligence (AI) era. It includes the following features:

• High throughput and ... [more]

Making Data Smarter with IBM Spectrum Discover: Practical AI Solutions
Storage Software

Draft Redbooks, last updated 26 Aug 2020

More than 80% of all data that is collected by organizations is not in a standard relational database. Instead, it is trapped in unstructured documents, social media posts, machine logs, and so on. Many organizations face significant challenges to manage this deluge of unstructured data such as:

• Pinpointing and activating relevant data for large-scale analytics, machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) workloads.
• Lacking the fine-grained visibility that is needed to map data to business priorities.
• Removing redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) data and ... [more]

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Practical Guidance for Deployment, Configuration, and Usage
Storage Solutions

Draft Redpaper, last updated 26 Aug 2020

IBM® Spectrum Protect Plus is a data protection solution that provides near-instant recovery, replication, retention, and reuse for virtual machines, databases, and applications in hybrid multicloud environments. IBM Knowledge Center for IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus provides extensive documentation for installation, deployment, and usage. In addition, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Blueprint (https://ibm.biz/IBMSpectrumProtectPlusBlueprints) provides guidance about how to build and size an IBM Spectrum Protect Plus solution. The goal of this IBM Redpaper publication is to summarize and complement ... [more]

IBM Storage Solutions for SAS Analytics using IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Elastic Storage System 3000 Version 1 Release 1
Analytics

Draft Redpaper, last updated 26 Aug 2020

This IBM® Redpaper is a blueprint for configuration, testing results, and tuning guidelines for running SAS workloads on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using IBM Spectrum® Scale and IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS) 3000. LAB Validation was conducted with the Red Hat Linux nodes running with the SAS simulator scripts connected to the IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM ESS 3000. The simultaneous workloads are simulated across multiple x-86 nodes running with Red Hat Linux to determine scalability against the IBM Spectrum Scale clustered file system and ESS 3000 array. This paper will outline the ... [more]