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NVMe and Flash – Now Available Throughout IBM Storage Portfolio

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Two weeks ago, IBM made a number of significant enhancements to their storage portfolio, further enhancing one of the industry’s most complete set of solutions for storage. These announcements were focused on adding exciting and innovative upgrades to their already comprehensive and feature-rich storage portfolio including NVMe additions, enhanced data protection, Artificial Intelligence integration, and more.

One big addition is the proliferation of NVMe and Flash throughout the various storage product lines. The third generation of the mid-range workhouse of the IBM storage family, the StorWize V7000, was announced with support for support for NVMe flash storage and NVMe-over-fabrics (NVMf).Clear Technologies Chief Operating Officer and President, Phil Godwin, was recently interviewed by CRN regarding the announcement.

“IBM’s embracing of NVMe is important because NVMe is the future of storage,” Godwin said. “IBM has made a big commitment to NVMe. This gives them a great position in the marketplace. And with the increase in performance, IBM has taken care of increasing needs for power to handle things like deduplication (CRN, 2018).”

Updates were also made to the FlashSystem, San Volume Controller (SVC), and Spectrum product lines.

Clear Technologies is excited about these new announcements because it not only brings the fastest performing technologies to the market but also makes Flash itself more available to those organizations who cannot afford the highest end storage devices.

Clear Technologies is an IBM Platinum Partner and IBM Storage Expert.  With its award-winning storage reporting and analytics service, Visual One Intelligence™, Clear can show you how IBM storage systems, such as the new FlashSystem 9150, can dramatically impact your environment using your own applications’ and hosts’ requirements.  If you are looking to architect for the future of your datacenter or hybrid cloud environment, or just want to see more about how new technologies like Flash and NVMe can help solve your issues, contact Clear Technologies today.

Why did IBM buy Red Hat?

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At $34-billion, it’s the biggest software acquisition ever. So, why is IBM spending so much money on Red Hat? The reason is twofold. First, it’s about positioning IBM as a cloud power. And, second, it’s about investing in open source. The two are intimately connected.

Except for Microsoft Azure, the cloud is built on Linux and open-source software. Oh, and Azure? Linux virtual machines (VM) now make up half Azure’s workloads. Many of those, by the way, are Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) VMs.

IBM has a long history of working in open source. In fact, in many ways, IBM is partly responsible for the open-source movement’s success. IBM’s strong support for Linux—with patent pledges and investment of significant technical resources in the face of some of the legal uncertainty surrounding its use in the late 1990s—brought about a change in posture toward open-source for many enterprises.

“The acquisition of Red Hat is a game-changer. It changes everything about the cloud market. IBM will become the world’s #1 hybrid cloud provider, offering companies the only open cloud solution that will unlock the full value of the cloud for their businesses,” said Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO.

Senior VP and president for IBM Hybrid Cloud Arvind Krishna has also said that while the world is keen to move to cloud computing, most customers are running multiple clouds and are only 20% or so into their cloud journey. The next stage is for real businesses to move real business applications to the cloud and be able to move and deploy applications and services between their multiple cloud environments.

IBM wanted Red Hat for it’s development of what is the world’s largest portfolio of open source technology; a hybrid cloud platform and a vast open-source developer community. Together, the two companies effectively become the world’s leading hybrid multi-cloud provider.

Red Hat will now join IBM’s Hybrid Cloud team as a distinct unit. The companies claim that this will ‘preserve the independence and neutrality’ of Red Hat’s open source development heritage and, importantly, Red Hat’s development culture. Red Hat will continue to be led by Jim Whitehurst and Red Hat’s current management team.

Learn more about Clear Technologies’ Red Hat consulting services. 

What does containerized apps have to do with it?

Experts say IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat opens a new dynamic in the cloud wars between IBM, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. It gives IBM added muscles in the enterprise hybrid cloud space, and it opens up a large conversation around containerized apps and microservices infrastructure. 

Both IBM and Red Hat are strong in key hybrid cloud technologies such as Linux, containers, Kubernetes, multi-cloud management, and cloud management and automation.

IBM has acquired a great foundation with Red Hat’s OpenShift, a container app platform by Red Hat built on Docker. IBM acquired two important things through OpenShift, according to Randy Heffner, an analyst for Forrester. As big as cloud is, many applications are still running on-premises because they are hard to move. There are also security or data residency concerns. “OpenShift gives IBM a story to tell for on-premise-to-cloud migration — or simply hybrid cloud/on-prem operations of containerized apps and microservices,” Heffner said.

Further, doing high-end microservice-based solutions today is rocket science, and having control of OpenShift will give IBM a leg up on crafting what one might call the “app server” for microservices, he added.

“IBM will be the leader when this deal with Red Hat is realized, though others have some toes in the water on it. Google recently announced an on-premises version of its container engine. Google is managed on your hardware, but IBM can do that, too, and will have a wider range of deployment options, including being completely customer-managed,” Heffner said.

With the acquisition of Red Hat, we look forward to IBM and its continuing development of becoming the world’s number one hybrid cloud provider.

Clear Technologies is excited about this acquisition as both a partner of Red Hat and IBM. We are partnering with end-user companies large and small on the next generation of Information Technology.   This announcement is part of the ever-changing landscape of the future of hybrid IT.  Contact us today to discuss how this announcement could benefit your Cloud and Container strategy, or read more about finding the right cloud solution for your organization.

One Platform for Instant Recovery, Search, Development, and Cloud

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Things are changing. Enterprises are shedding complex, legacy multi-tiered solutions in favor of simplified data management purpose-built for cloud. In the past, using multiple point solutions resulted in brittle infrastructure, which brought challenges such as long deployment cycles, inability to meet SLAs, lack of scalability, architectural complexity, and fragmented management.

Rubrik has come along to change that. Rubrik bridges the gap between owned, on-premises infrastructure and the cloud by decoupling data from the data center. With a software-defined approach, Rubrik delivers the agility and performance of web-scale platforms and cloud providers while automating workflow management to provide resiliency and agility as enterprises on-ramp to the cloud.

What is Cloud Data Management?

Rubrik Cloud Data Management is a single, unified software platform to manage your physical, virtual, and cloud data. With Rubrik, enterprises can drastically simplify their data protection processes, automate workflows, and migrate data to the cloud. The results are powerful: faster recoveries, easier management, no forklift upgrades, and hard dollars saved for other projects. If your company is pursuing cloud- first policies Rubrik can archive to the cloud, create cloud DR capabilities, or perform cloud-native backup. And with Rubrik’s Polaris SaaS platform, it’s never been easier to unify data across data centers and clouds, simplifying operations and governance.

Before Rubrik – The diagram below depicts legacy architecture consisting of multiple points of technology, including media servers, backup storage, tape, and software licenses.

After Rubrik – Rubrik reduces management complexity by 70% with a converged software platform that is radically simple and built for any cloud.Why

Cloud Data Management?Rubrik decouples application data from infrastructure through a software-defined fabric, driving business acceleration and resiliency at lower costs. Rubrik’s Cloud Data Management platform provides a cloud-native approach to managing the lifecycle of data, from creation to expiration, across the data center to the cloud. In one platform, Rubrik delivers instant access, automated orchestration with self-service, and unified management for any application, cloud, or location.

  • Instant Access: Rubrik enables predictive global search and instant recovery by unifying data locked within disparate application silos into one globally indexed namespace while leveraging zero-byte cloning technology to enable on-demand copy data workflows. Recover quickly from ransomware from immutable backups and point-in-time recovery. Deliver fast, customized platform analytics across your entire infrastructure.
  • Automated Orchestration with Self-Service: Rubrik wipes out management complexity with just a few clicks through a single policy engine that orchestrates service level agreements (SLAs) across the entire data lifecycle. Automate management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with one programmatic interface. Integrate Rubrik into your ideal stack to accelerate application and data service delivery.
  • Freedom of Choice: Rubrik frees applications and data from infrastructure, unifying management on one platform. Rubrik provides a cloud-native platform with broad support for any third-party hypervisor, application, database, and cloud. Rubrik secures application data whether in-flight or at-rest throughout its lifecycle, regardless of location.

The benefits can you expect from Rubrik’s Cloud Data Management Platform:

  • Near-zero RTO – Reduce your RTOs from hours to just minutes. Deliver near-zero RTOs by mounting directly onto Rubrik. No rehydration in production required. Instantly recover from failures, disasters, and Ransomware. Deliver near-zero RTOs with predictive search. Locate VMs, databases, applications, or files, whether the data resides on-prem or in the cloud.
  • Immediate Hard Savings – Achieve 30-50% in hard savings immediately from software convergence. Management simplicity amplifies savings over time while freeing resources up for true innovation.
  • Get Up and Running – Customers typically get up and running in less than 15 minutes. Determine what policies to apply to your applications. Rubrik takes care of the rest.
  • Daily Management Time – Use one SLA policy engine to create and automate backup, replication, and archival policies with just a few clicks. Reduce daily management time by 60%. Rubrik wipes out management complexity with just a few clicks through a single policy engine that orchestrates service level agreements (SLAs) across the entire data lifecycle. Automate management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with one programmatic interface.
  • Data Center Footprint Reduction – Eliminate complexity of legacy multi-point solutions with a single platform. Shrink your data center footprint up to 70%.

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HA/DR Insurance for Your Data Center

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Information is the backbone of your business. Lose access to it, and you can lose valuable time, money and even end-user clients. Yet many businesses still haven’t implemented a proper High Availability/Disaster Recovery strategy. They see it as a cost and not an investment.

The truth is, it’s very much like your homeowner’s insurance. You may not notice its benefits immediately – and may even grumble about the bill. But when disaster strikes, you’re glad it’s there. The same is true for your HA/DR.

The challenge is often determining the right solution.

Fortunately, Clear Technologies offers several tools and services to help map the best HA/DR solution with the customer’s business. For an on premises solution, we have Visual One (Visual One Intelligence™) which can offer a point in time snaphsot of critical system performance. This information can give you the tools to determine which data requires protection and the best way to do so.

If you’re exploring a could option, we have our interactive quick assessment that can help you determine the cloud-based solution that’s the best fit for your business.

And sometimes, the best strategy is a hybrid approach where multiple components such as on-prem, cloud and a co-location facility (“co-lo”) are woven together to provide a powerful, secure and cost-effective way to safeguard your data. For such solutions, Clear’s team of technical sales specialists and engineers leverage a wide variety of technology partners to build the solution that’s right for you.

Your data is as important as your home or car. Shouldn’t it have insurance, too?

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Turn Your Business Challenges into New Opportunities

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the current marketplace, companies need to use every available tool at their disposal to create an advantage. With the growth of data and cognitive solutions, Clear Intelligence aims to help businesses harness the power of their data to make a positive impact on the business.  “…Companies are creating massive amounts of data and they are having a problem knowing how to use that data to positively affect their business. Our goal is simply to do that,” said Phil Godwin, President of Clear Technologies. With a business-first approach, we take the time to understand the key challenges and/or potential opportunities within the business and deliver unprecedented solutions following our 5 step DIDIT process, always keeping the clients P&L at the forefront of our thinking.

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”6554″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Clear Intelligence is headed up by Chief Innovation Officer, Brian Murphy, who joined the Clear Technologies team in April 2018. Prior to joining Clear, Brian led client success for global strategic accounts at SAP, served as SVP and CIO for Dean Foods, led IT integration for merger and acquisitions and large ERP implementations for several companies, and held various positions in IT and line of business at companies such as Whirlpool, T-Mobile, Colgate, Palmolive and PPG Industries.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Technology is no longer just a support function, but is a benchmark for success. By leveraging innovation technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of Things and Blockchain, we can create unique solutions designed to enable opportunities and solve complex business problems. Implementation of the solution is just the beginning. We remain engaged with your team in a collaborative effort to drive adoption and scale to extract the full value of the solution. With continuous improvement frameworks in place, we will ensure the solution continually evolves and drives increased value as the business changes.  This is where the full ROI and competitive disruption is realized and, more importantly, maintained.[/vc_column_text][vc_btn title=”VISIT CLEARINTELLIGENCE.COM TO LEARN MORE” shape=”round” color=”danger” align=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp” button_block=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.clearintelligence.com|||”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Cloud-enable your IBM Power Environment

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Today, there are two basic schools of thought for architecting the infrastructure of the future: on-premise hardware or Cloud.  While both options can take many different forms (and have wildly different pros and cons), they are the basic decision one must make when modernizing their environment.  On-prem hardware can lead to lower long-term costs with better performance and more control, while Cloud offerings can offer lower upfront costs, faster speed to market and less management overhead.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What if you could have an environment with the benefits of Cloud in on-premise architecture?

This is exactly what IBM Cloud Private offers: the speed of the public cloud with the control of owning your own hardware.  IBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes-based container platform that embraces modern workloads and dynamic provisioning all within your own datacenter – minimizing risk, complexity and cost.  IBM Cloud Private offers Rapid Innovation, Hybrid Integration, and Compliance & Management all while leveraging your current investments.

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”6544″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”zoom”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]IBM Cloud Private also enables cloud benefits in IBM Power environments.  IBM Cloud Private for Power strengthens its industry-leading reliability and performance capabilities while adding the automation and flexibility of Cloud.  Clients run on IBM Power for its ability to handle mission-critical applications – IBM Cloud Private enhances that ability while also providing an easy avenue to add new technologies such as AI, Blockchain and IoT.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Here are three of the reasons you should consider IBM Cloud Private for IBM Power today:

  1. Leverage your current investments in IBM AIX and i while modernizing those environments for the future.
  2. Add the ability to use containers to quickly deploy new solutions such as AI and Blockchain.
  3. Increase the agility of your environment for a Cloud-like approach to infrastructure for new AI and Machine Learning applications.

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]All of these features and more can be added to your environment for very little investment. In fact, adding this to a IBM POWER9 proposal is as simple as adding a part number. Clear Technologies has IBM Power Systems  subject matter experts ready to show you how this would work at your organization.  To learn more about how to modernize your environment and add the best of Cloud to your environment, contact your Clear Technologies rep today.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”GET IN TOUCH” color=”primary” align=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp” button_block=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cleartechnologies.net%2Fabout%2Fcontact%2F|||”][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Blockchain TSS

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When you hear the term Blockchain, it likely brings to mind cryptocurrency.  Although cryptocurrency is its most publicized use, Blockchain is not simply a technology for financial institutions.  Manufacturers are also utilizing Blockchain themselves in a number of ways. One of its more innovative applications is in the realm of technology service and support. Digital ledger technology is now delivering a new level of assurance that service providers are meeting their responsibilities outlined in service-level agreements (SLAs).

IBM recently launched a new Support as a Service capability powered by IBM Blockchain and aimed at businesses engaging in digital transformation. By embedding blockchain into their Multivendor Support Services “smart contracts,” IBM can provide transparent, audit-ready transaction data while monitoring SLA metrics and accountability. This process streamlines and automates the billing processes to more closely match the speed and dynamism of the digital business model.

Blockchain – Built in Trust?

The promise of blockchain is that a shared distributed ledger creates a tamper-resistant record of transactions enabling trusted and audit-ready products and services. When using blockchain, trust is delegated to people and even objects such as sensors and monitors that occupy a shared network. If one of these data sources isn’t trusted to perform well, it can be automatically rejected by the other objects on the network, as well as the transaction record itself. In this way, the ledger and its “smart contract” become the foundation of trust.

This ability to preserve trust becomes increasingly important as contracts grow in both size and complexity and transaction data is shared continuously, in near-real time. By time-stamping contract-related events and adding them to a tamper-resistant record, support providers can effectively embed trust into the digital ledger.

Blockchain is expected to become an essential resource for the enterprise to evaluate contract performance, reduce the complexity of billing processes and eliminate unrealizable billing costs due to lack of evidence or an over-delivery of services.

With blockchain now an integral part of IBM’s Support as a Service portfolio, companies can gain the ability to independently verify the activities driving their digital business processes, providing new-found confidence that they are both delivering and receiving exactly what is expected.

 

Learn More about IBM Multivendor Support Services in the video below:

To learn more about IBM Multivendor Support Services and how they’re using blockchain to ensure delivery of technology support services, please contact Steven Hargis, shargis@cleartechnologies.net.

 

 

 

Reduce IT Complexity with IBM IMS

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Integrated Multivendor Support (IMS) for your Data Center is a service designed to expand the life of your non-IBM server, storage and networking equipment.  Functioning as a single source for your multivendor data center environment, we can offer technical support solutions to fit your needs while helping to optimize system availability, reduce costs and reduce IT complexity.

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An Infrastructure for Big Data and AI

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]IBM® Hyperconverged Systems powered by Nutanix is a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solution that combines Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform software with IBM Power® Systems. The integrated solution targets demanding transactional and cognitive analytics workloads with an infrastructure that is easy to manage and simple to scale. ]Web-scale architecture

IBM Hyperconverged Systems powered by Nutanix bridge the efficiency and performance gaps between enterprise datacenters and public clouds. Nutanix Enterprise Cloud software enables simple management, nimbleness and cost efficiency for open system environments, allowing IT experts to spend more time optimizing performance and extracting insight from applications and data.

 

Acropolis OS

Nutanix Acropolis delivers software-defined enterprise-class storage, compute and native virtualization services to run nearly any application. It provides feature-rich data services in a turnkey hyperconverged infrastructure solution that can be deployed out of the box in 60 minutes or less. Its distributed file services eliminate the need for standalone SAN or NAS-based storage separate from compute servers – reducing the complexity of infrastructure management.

Prism management

Prism simplifies infrastructure management with one-click operations. Prism provides an end-to-end management solution for virtualized datacenter environments. It streamlines and automates common workflows therefore eliminating the need for multiple management solutions across datacenter operations. With its advanced machine learning technology, Prism analyzes system data to generate actionable insights – optimizing virtualization and infrastructure management.

IBM POWER Architecture

Systems built with the POWER architecture are different by design – engineered at every level to be more powerful and open than competing server designs. POWER8 processors enable 4X more memory bandwidth, cache and threads per core versus x86. IBM Power Systems deliver superior VM density in cloud environments providing a clear price-performance advantage versus x86-based systems for workloads such as MongoDB, IBM Websphere Application Server and EDB Postgres, among others.

Seamlessly scale data across distributed nodes

Individual servers (called nodes) are clustered together in a scale-out topology managed by the Nutanix software stack. Internal physical storage resources from each node are pooled into one large, virtualized distributed file system. Additional servers can easily be added to increase compute or storage capacity dynamically with single-click simplicity.

Contact your Clear Technologies rep today to learn more!

Are you ready to continue the Cloud journey?

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]For the always on, always available world, a Cloud or Hybrid Cloud strategy is key to maintain a positive client experience, meet service level agreements and combat competitive pressures from other businesses.  However, beyond using applications that are “born in the cloud,” many businesses do not know where to start or have a way of measuring where they are to begin planning for the future.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”6498″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It’s all about knowing for sure what you have so you can begin architecting for the future.  Clear Technologies’ Application & Software Assessment will enable your organization to take those steps so the to start or even continue your journey to the cloud.  In addition to cloud and hybrid-cloud enablement, the assessment also aids in critical projects such as data center moves, yearly budgeting, and employee turnover.

Our offering is platform agnostic. Once the discovery process is complete, we will provide you with a table showing all of your applications along with relevant data points for hardware/software capacity & lifecycle planning.

In order to scale, the approach we use consists of both manual and automated discovery. The full meaning of “platform agnostic” is understood. For us it means clients may have platforms we have never seen before. No problem. We’ll get the data points manually the first time and then automate for scalability in the future.

Building your unique baseline dataset is step one. Clear can provide substantial added value through analysis of the raw data:

  • Per-application Software Lifecycle Planning
  • Server, Storage, & Network Infrastructure Lifecycle Planning
  • Consolidation Planning for Virtualization, Containerization, & Cloud
  • Granular Policy, Process, Facilities, and Compliance Validation

To begin your journey with a Clear Technologies’ Application & Software Assessment, Get In Touch with us today!

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Charles McCane

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