IBM Cloud Redbooks

27 June 2024, Redbooks

The IBM® Diamondback tape library is the next-generation ultra-high density tape storage solution available from IBM. The Diamondback is designed to easily scale out and fit into any data center or server room, with each frame having only the footprint of a standard server rack. Designed with a focus on simplicity and density, the library can be deployed quickly and easily managed using ...

04 June 2024, Draft Redpaper

Metro disaster recovery (DR) provides two-way synchronous data replication between IBM® Fusion HCI clusters installed at two sites. In the event of a site disaster, applications can be failed over to the second site. The replication between the sites is synchronous, hence, the Metro DR solution is only available for metropolitan distance data centers with 40 milliseconds latency or less. This ...

02 April 2024, Redbooks

For many years, SAP migrations have been a standard process. An increasing number of customers are changing their database software to IBM® Db2® for UNIX, Linux, and Windows or are moving their existing Db2 based infrastructure from on-premises into the cloud. When customers move to the cloud, a heterogeneous system copy is often needed because of a change in the underlying hardware architecture ...

10 January 2024, Redpaper

Batch processing is used for some of an organization’s most critical and time-sensitive business operations. It is used across many industries including, memo-posting of banking transactions in high volume, settlement and clearing, claims processing, risk assessments, payroll handling, ledger postings and reconciliations, and operational activities such as backups, reporting, data transfer, and ...

20 December 2023, Draft Redbooks

High availability and business continuity continue to be focus themes for businesses as they work hard to provide infrastructure components to support the "always available" requirements for their critical business functions. In addition, many enterprises are starting to build critical business functions on Linux servers to take advantage of the openness and portability of those applications ...

20 December 2023, Draft Redbooks

This IBM Redbooks publication will help you install, tailor and configure an automation environment using Ansible in an IBM Power server environment. Ansible is a versatile and easy to use IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. With Ansible you can automate almost anything: code deployment, network configuration, server infrastructure ...

01 November 2023, Redpaper

What is the best strategy to an effective digital transformation of your business? How do you make your business more agile, productive, and less siloed so that you can provide engaging customer experiences rapidly and at lower costs? Answer: Accelerate your mainframe application modernization and leverage hybrid cloud. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides an overview of the IBM® ...

15 September 2023, Redpaper

What is the best strategy to achieve an effective digital transformation of your business? How do you make your business more agile, productive, and less siloed so that you can provide engaging customer experiences rapidly and at lower costs? Answer: Accelerate your IBM z/Transaction Processing Facility (z/TPF) application modernization and leverage hybrid cloud. This IBM Redbooks® ...

19 July 2023, Redpaper

IBM Spectrum® Virtualize for Public Cloud supports clients in their IT architectural transformation and migration toward the cloud service model. It facilitates hybrid cloud strategy and cloud-native strategy, and it provides the benefits of having advanced storage features, functions, and capabilities usually found only in on-premises data centers. IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud ...

08 April 2023, Draft Redpaper

Object Storage is the primary storage solution that is used in the cloud and on-premises solutions as a central storage platform for unstructured data. Object Storage is growing more popular for the following reasons: It is designed for exabyte scale. It is easy to manage and yet meets the growing demands of enterprises for a broad set of applications and workloads. It allows users ...