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Network Attached Storage (NAS) is better with Visual One

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Improve NAS efficiency with Visual One Intelligence®®

IBM NAS storage Visual One managesNetwork Attached Storage (NAS) is an exceptional solution for customers who wish to quickly and extensively share files within their network. The reasonable cost of NAS devices has led to expanding usage by organizations, and has led to the development of clustered NAS solutions by IBM and other storage hardware suppliers.

Regardless of the storage technology used, the need for storage continues to expand exponentially. Storage demand is primarily driven by unstructured data, which is defined as data that is not part of a relational database. NAS solutions are specifically designed for storing this type of unstructured data. The increase in required storage creates a critical need to effectively manage NAS and other storage solutions to maximize their efficiency and to plan for future storage needs. In response to this need Clear Technologies offers Visual One Intelligence® ® (Visual One). Visual One provides storage analytics on demand and provides customers with infinite storage visibility without the need for additional tools, equipment, or data gathering.

Visual One is a Software-as-a-Solution product that allows customers to realize their current storage capacity, determine how much file duplication exists, efficiently reallocate storage, and plan for the future. For NAS solutions, Visual One quickly provides a snap shot of current storage usage across all drives and clusters identifying load issues, allowing for reallocation and identifying potential future needs. Key benefits of Visual One for NAS solutions are:

1. Determining the cost and storage savings that could be achieved by implementing deduplication features.
2. Identifying how much storage requirements could be reduced by utilizing compression technology.

 

Visual One reports are delivered via a series of visual graphics highlighting storage utilization. These reports largely eliminate the need for developing complicated, and often inaccurate, tracking spreadsheets. Visual One is available for a wide array of NAS and other storage systems including the full range of IBM solutions.

Many customers utilize NAS solutions because of their faster data access, easier administration, and simple configuration. Adding Visual One to this equation provides even better efficiency and utilization without the need for any additional hardware. Visual One 4.0 was launched on April 12, 2016 and provides several additional benefits:

1. Expanded business unit reporting with drill down
2. Improved user experience
3. Additional flexibility

 

A NAS solution from IBM and other manufacturers combined with Visual One will let customers make better storage decisions, reduce storage costs, lower complexity, and improve storage performance and utilization.

Managed Services for IT Infrastructure

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Managed Services make IT more strategic

Clear Technologies provides Managed Services to clients to allow their IT departments to managed servicesfocus on the business’ strategic initiatives.  In today’s business environment, IT departments are challenged to not only maintain their current infrastructure, applications, and operations but also make strategic contributions.

Companies Challenge IT to:
  • Free up IT resources for strategic initiatives
  • Improve their cost structure
  • Provide optimum service levels to the business
  • Mitigate infrastructure and system risks

IT departments increasingly require help to maintain IBM iSeries and other technology infrastructures.

Managed Services provides an answer

Managed Services provide external resources to plan, operate and optimize IT infrastructures.  Service providers have developed systems and procedures to constantly monitor performance, proactively diagnose issues, and resolve problems.  A primary element of an effective service program is easy access to infrastructure, systems, and applications expertise.  Key components of service agreements include:

  • 24x7x365 support
  • Real time monitoring
  • Infrastructure and application specific expertise
  • Contingency and emergency plans
  • Life cycle and upgrade planning and implementation

These solutions help companies free up resources from day-to-day operations.  Managed Service solutions include: systems management, operations management and support, device management, and recovery services.

The core benefits of Managed Services are:
  • Economies of scale
  • Operational efficiency
  • Minimized downtime
  • Reduced cost
  • Specialized expertise
  • Access to the latest IT technology
Clear Technologies Managed Services

Clear Technologies provides a comprehensive suite of Managed Services for IBM iSeries, System I, and AS/400 infrastructures.  Under Managed Services from Clear Technologies, mission critical systems and applications do not go down.  Core Managed Services include:

  • Database hosting
  • Server allocation
  • Remote technical operations management
  • High availability solutions
  • Data recovery
  • 24x7x365 support

Clear Technologies provides expertise and effective cost management that creates operational efficiencies, trouble-shooting capabilities, system and application updates and recommendations on emerging technologies.

Clear Technologies uses Managed Services to turn IT infrastructure into a competitive advantage for companies.

Os level mismatch after update or upgrade

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I’m positive I’ve used this tip many times over the years and pretty sure I even got it from Brian Smith’s blog which now seems to be MIA after the developerworks community was shutdown. So I figured I would put it here as reminder to me and hope it helps others find it.

After performing either an upgrade or an update the results from oslevel –s does not report the appropriate level. To find out what is missing do the following:

If the TL is right, but SP reported is wrong, run

oslevel -s -l `oslevel -sq 2>/dev/null | sed -n ‘1p’`

If the TL is wrong, run
oslevel -r -l `oslevel -rq 2>/dev/null | sed -n ‘1p’`

Welcome Mark Reynolds – New Director of Sales

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Mark Reynolds

Director, Sales

Clear Technologies, Inc.

469-360-4083

mreynolds@cleartechnologies.net

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As Director of Sales, Mark’s mission will be to grow the reseller division at Clear Technologies.  A key focus for the team will be on new client acquisition, growing the existing client base, bringing on new strategic partners, and working with the other leaders to create new sales processes to keep up with an ever-changing marketplace.  Mark will try to build on an already incredible workplace culture which lives by the Clear Technologies Way.  The Clear Technologies Way is comprised of 30 fundamental beliefs.  These are the values, behaviors, principles and practices that are the foundation for everything that Clear does.

Prior to joining Clear Technologies, Mark was most recently a District Sales Manager for Pure Storage which allows him to bring knowledge of an incredibly competitive, fast-growing segment of the hardware industry with him to Clear.  Mark also spent 5 years at Service Express, a third-party maintenance company, where he was employee number one in Texas and helped grow his TOLA team to the top producing region in the company.  He brings an extensive background of success in the telecommunications industry where he spent 6 years at Time Warner Cable Business Class and 7 years with Logix Communications.  Mark was also a member of the US Army where he served 4 years including deployments to Korea and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Those who know Mark attribute his success to his ability to get the right people on the bus and creating a culture that breeds high producing teams.  He puts the goals and needs of the client above his own and makes every decision revolve around doing the right things all the time.  He hates to lose more than he likes to win which drives him to not only write out goals but to work daily to achieve them.

Mark is originally from St. Paul, MN but moved to Texas at a very young age.  He received his Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of North Texas.  He is married and has 3 sons and a granddaughter which all reside in McKinney, TX.

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Using AI-Based Vision and Acoustic Solutions with Brian Murphy

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Former Clear Intelligence CIO, Brian Murphy, presented at CIO America in Chicago earlier this year on The Art of The Possible: Using AI-Based Vision and Acoustic solutions.  In this video Brian discusses facts, trends, and use cases for AI vision and acoustic based solutions to improve business models  in the modern world.

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Partner Spotlight – Measuring and Monitoring Software Usage

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Are you struggling to manage your software license consumption? Do you have PVU, sockets or RVU licensing? Is your IBM software running in a virtual environment?

The IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) is a free tool created by IBM to help you measure and monitor software usage. ILMT is a mandatory tool for any company using IBM software in a complex environment, however, getting it up and running, and managing and analyzing the data it collects can be challenging.

If you need assistance setting up or managing ILMT, Clear Technologies software partner, All Blue Solutions, supports hundreds of clients with all different levels of experience with ILMT. All Blue Solutions has deep understanding of IBM software licensing terms and conditions and technical experience working with ILMT. This expertise allows them to help you with everything from installing, configuring, upgrading or managing the infrastructure.

BENEFITS OF ILMT:

  • Ensures Compliance:Proper use of ILMT allows you to maintain an up-to-date inventory of your software assets and ensure you have the appropriate number of license entitlements so you can maintain continuous license compliance.
  • Saves You Money:By constantly monitoring your license consumption, you can understand current and predict future consumption providing you with the opportunity to optimize your license costs so you’re only paying for the software you need.
  • Valuable Data Insights:ILMT provides you with deep insights into your software inventory to help manage your infrastructure. You always know what software, you have, where it is and how its being used.
  • Constant Audit Readiness:UsingILMT can help reduce the risk and costs associated with a software audit. By constantly monitoring your license consumption, you can avoid any unplanned license compliance settlements.

HOW ALL BLUE SOLUTIONS CAN HELP:

  • Installation & Configuration:Review of ILMT installation and agent configuration on all servers across the enterprise.
  • Quarterly Review:Run, maintain, and reconcilequarterly audit reports. Review reports to identify any variances between entitlements and usage.
  • Free Cloud Hosting:Free cloud hosting of ILMT server saving your staff significant time installing, upgrading, managing and maintaining the server.
  • Patching & Upgrades:ILMT environment patching and upgrades based in IBM release schedule, and upgrade, maintain and monitor ILMT on an ongoing basis.

To learn more about the benefits of ILMT and how Clear Technologies and All Blue Solutions can help ensure your software license compliance and mitigate risk download our whitepaper. Contact your Clear Technologies rep today!

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Welcome Joe Cox to the Clear Tech Team

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Joe Cox is the Storage Architect at Clear Technologies and has been in the role since August 2019. In his role at Clear, Joe is focused on creating storage solutions for clients around traditional and new workloads. Joe brings a business first approach to driving the conversation to focus on business problems that help drive both top and bottom lines of the clients P&L.

Prior to joining Clear Technologies, Joe was in roles at IBM supporting North American strategic accounts. Joe has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry with a focus on data protection and data storage strategies. Joe has a strong background in design, implementation, and management of large and complex solutions in many different market spaces, with a focus on service providers and healthcare. Joe has worked with many of the North American service providers such as DXC, NTT Data, Atos, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Perot Systems as well as many in Western Europe.

Before his time at IBM, Joe worked as a software consultant and post-sales implementation engineer. Joe is a traveler who enjoys spending time with his family and time outdoors. He also loves to give back to his local community via volunteering, fund raising, and donating.

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Red Hat Ansible

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Red Hat’s Ansible Automation helps organizations turn tough tasks into repeatable playbooks.

Working in IT, you’re likely doing the same tasks over and over. Ansible is a powerful IT automation and orchestration engine easy enough for everyone to use and powerful enough to automate the most complex, multi tear environments including cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Designed for multi-tier deployments, Ansible models your IT infrastructure by describing how all of your systems inter-relate, rather than just managing one system at a time.

Automation frees admins up to focus on efforts that help deliver more value to the business by speeding time to application delivery, and building on a culture of success. Ultimately, Ansible gives teams the one thing they can never get enough of: time. Allowing smart people to focus on smart things.

It uses no agents and no additional custom security infrastructure, so it’s easy to deploy – and most importantly, it uses a very simple language (YAML, in the form of Ansible Playbooks) that allow you to describe your automation jobs in a way that approaches plain English.

With Ansible you can start to do real work in just minutes due to its simple, human-readable language. Altogether its powerful capabilities allow orchestration of your entire application lifecycle regardless of where it’s deployed. And Ansible’s agentless architecture means it is one less thing to keep secure.

When you automate, you accelerate. And when you build a culture of automation across your company, anything is possible.

Contact your Clear Technologies rep to learn how you can work smarter with Ansible.

Contact your Clear Technologies rep to learn how you can work smarter with Ansible.

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