IBM Cloud Redbooks

August 10, 2022, Redbooks

Cybersecurity is the most important arm of defense against cyberattacks. With the recent increase in cyberattacks, corporations must focus on how they are combating these new high-tech threats. When establishing best practices, a corporation must focus on employees’ access to specific workspaces and information. IBM Z® focuses on allowing high processing virtual environments while maintaining a ...

March 15, 2022, Redbooks

IBM® Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud is now available on Microsoft Azure. With IBM Spectrum® Virtualize for Public Cloud 8.4.3, users can deploy a highly available two-node cluster running IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud on supported Microsoft Azure virtual machines (VMs). This all-inclusive, bring your own license (BYOL) software offering provides the ability to virtualize, ...

March 10, 2022, Redbooks

This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps you with the planning, installation, and configuration of the new IBM Spectrum® Archive Enterprise Edition (EE) Version 1.3.2.2 for the IBM TS4500, IBM TS3500, IBM TS4300, and IBM TS3310 tape libraries. IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition enables the use of the LTFS for the policy management of tape as a storage tier in an IBM Spectrum Scale based ...

February 17, 2022, Redbooks

IBM DFSMS and the IBM DS8000 added functionality to provide elements of serverless data movement, and for IBM z/OS® to communicate with a storage cloud. The function is known as Transparent Cloud Tiering and is composed of the following key elements: A gateway in the DS8000, which allows the movement of data to and from Object Storage by using a network connection, with the option ...

February 03, 2022, Redpaper

Cloud is a method of computing. In an age where everything relies on data, from the digital drive of a single person to the confidential data of a large bank, the internet age requires that this data is transported rapidly, efficiently, and securely always, sometimes globally. Before cloud computing, which started to become mainstream only in the late 1990s, each company, no matter how small or ...

December 17, 2021, Redpaper

This IBM® Redpaper® publication describes configuration guidelines and best practices when IBM Spectrum® Scale Container Native Storage Access is used as a storage provider for IBM Cloud® Pak for Data on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. It also provides the steps to install IBM Db2® and several assemblies within IBM Cloud Pak® for Data, including Watson Knowledge Catalog, Watson Studio, IBM ...

September 14, 2021, Redpaper

This IBM® Redpaper chapterexplains how to take a backup of your data by using either of two methods, and it explains how to recover your data if there is a disaster. This paper addresses topics for IT architects, IT specialists, developers, sellers, and anyone looking to implement and manage backups in the cloud. Moreover, this publication provides documentation to transfer the how-to-skills to ...

June 04, 2021, Redpaper

The IBM® mainframe remains a widely used enterprise computing workhorse, hosting essential IT for the majority of the world’s top banks, airlines, insurers and more. As the mainframe continues to evolve, the newest IBM Z® servers offer solutions for AI and analytics, blockchain, cloud, DevOps, security and resiliency, with the aim of making the client experience similar to that of using cloud ...

March 31, 2021, Redpaper

This IBM® Redpaper® publication is intended to facilitate the deployment and configuration of the IBM Spectrum® Scale based high-performance storage solutions for the scalable data and AI solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Configuration, testing results, and tuning guidelines for running the IBM Spectrum Scale based high-performance storage solutions for the data and AI workloads on AWS are ...

November 30, 2020, Redpaper

This IBM® Redpaper publication describes the architecture, installation procedure, and results for running a typical training application that works on an automotive data set in an orchestrated and secured environment that provides horizontal scalability of GPU resources across physical node boundaries for deep neural network (DNN) workloads. This paper is mostly relevant for systems engineers, ...