Cost advantages of running Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power Systems

Download here: https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/26A6ONYL

This paper examines Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) running on IBM® Power Systems as an effective platform for application modernization for a hybrid cloud environment. IBM tests show that the same multi-tier online transaction processing(OLTP)workloads on Red Hat OpenShift,running IBM WebSphere®Hybrid Edition on an IBM E950 Power System,can process 3.2x more transactions per second and can reduce the cost per transaction in a three-year TCO modelby 53%versus compared x86 servers. In addition to reducing IT costs, IBM Power Systems provide other benefits such as resiliency, security and scalability that are requisites for enterprise IT.

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IBM i & IBM Power Grundkurs

Datum 18 – 22 Oktober
Kostnad 25.000 SEK ex Moms (10% Rabatt för medlemmar i Common Sweden & Common Norge)
Kursen sker online
Anmälan genom mail till [email protected]

Innehåll i kursen:

AGENDA

  • Introduction 
  • IBM Power and IBM i history
  • IBM i architecture from System/38 to IBM i
  • Operating systems, Licensed Internal Code and the integrated database
  • Command structure, menus and prompting
  • Demo – Menu structure and help functions
  • User profiles &  authorities
  • Communication, terminals, printers etc. 
  • Console, system startup / IPL
  • Power Systems, hardware, storage
  • Virtualization, PowerVM and related software
  • Installation of IBM i & licensed programs
  • PTF management
  • Programming languages, compilators and applications
  • Management interfaces, ACS & iNavigator
  • Authority / security
  • Job management, job queues, out queues
  • CL-Programming
  • Backup/BRMS

Huvudlärare är gurun Gunnar Elmgren

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Specialistlärare CL-Programmering är Åke H Olsson

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Bakgrund och historia körs av Torbjörn Appehl

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Infor M3 runs best on IBM i

Yesterday (May 17th 2021) the Swedish user group for Infor M3 (and Movex) arranged a webinar with focus on IBM i for the first time in many years.

The message from the huge ERP vendor has shifted slightly from “Cloud only” to “you are ok if you run our software anywhere actually”. This opens up for a lot of good things for the very strong M3 on IBM i community who until now has hasited to invest in infrastructure as the previous message was very clear from Infor. The problem with that message was that many of their clients didn’t either want to go to any public cloud (Infor runs on AWS) or actually couldn’t for a number of reasons (compliance is just one of them).

Anyway, back to today’s webinar with the IBM i Chief Architect Steve Will doing the first part where the title was IBM i Anywhere, IBM i Everywhere – Strategy, Roadmap & Innovation.

The message was very strong from IBM that they are very committed to IBM i and that the operating system has a long period of growth even during the pandemic. The future is also great due to its very innovative features and functions built into the system (code compiled once in the 1980’s still runs on Power9 and will run on Power10 coming out later this year).

Right now the planned support for future versions is well into the 2030’s. IBM just delivers according to their plans as they’ve always did..

Steve Will also talked about how open IBM i is today compared to earlier versions of the operating system. Open Source has been a huge area of success for the platform, not at least due to all the runtimes, tools and frameworks that AI requires and IBM continues to port to IBM i. They are always listening to their customer base through the many different user groups and other channels to make sure they are investing in technologies that their customers are asking for.

The message was very clear – IBM i can do it!

Next after Steve Will, Mr Eddie Chaffin from ABP Food Group in the UK continued the presentation.

A short presentation first about ABP showed they are a very large organization with approximately £3 billion in revenue. With only about 140 persons in their IT-organizations (Five companies) tells me their choice of platform for M3 is a very cost effective one.

The technical description of their M3 environment shows they are running everything on just two Power8 S814 servers. Talking about cost effective..

Eddie gave the audience a number of tips and tricks for managing M3 with the help of ACS. Access Client Solutions is the best tool available for any kind of IBM i related management in general, but in this session there were some M3 related tips such as changing the heap size for performance purpose when it comes to navigating the IFS (M3 has a huge number of files / documents in IFS) and how to use built in Authority Collection for compliance reasons.

He gave many other tips regarding database performance, how to use SQL Scripts for collecting information that could take a day in the past etc.

The main thing in Eddie’s presentation was their implementation of Row and Column Access Control – RCAC in their M3 environment.

This is a level of data security they need to avoid “Data Tourism” that their database was open for before. M3 has a very good security system in place for end users, but for people connecting via ODBC/JDBC it is not so good. Besides just the commercial risk with unauthorized people reading the data, GDPR Compliance is as well high priority for companies.

RCAC was implemented with the help of Infor and IBM LAB Services (Kent Milligan was the RCAC expert involved from IBM Rochester) and the solution is fully supported by Infor today.

Overall the whole session today was a great success. The user group leader was very happy with the content and glad that IBM (that he work for in 1988 when the AS/400 was launched) welcomes IBM and ABP back in the future.

Full version of the presentation can be downloaded HERE

At the keyboard: Torbjörn Appehl

Lunch & Learn with iPerformance

Date: June 2nd

Time: 12.00 – 12.30 CEST

REGISTRATION

GiAPA is an Application Performance Analysis and Operations Support Tool collecting comprehensive resource usage information 24/7 for all jobs every 15 seconds using less than 0.1 % CPU. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used in the automatic analysis of the data.

In this joint Lunch & Learn together with IBM, the founder of GiAPA – Kaare Plesner will talk about GiAPA and what it can do to find performance bottlenecks and GiAPA will even suggest a number of actions for performance improvements with the help of it’s newly built in Artificial Intelligence.

GiAPA will even suggest a number of actions for performance improvements with the help of it’s newly built in Artificial Intelligence.

Kaare will be joined by highly respected performance expert and IBM LAB Services Member, Morten Buur Rasmussen. Simon Porstendorfer, ISV Ecoystem Leader Europe – Cognitive Systems at IBM will be the host of the event.

A short introduction video about GiAPA:

Morten Buur Rasmussen, IBM LAB Services

Morten is a senior IT Specialist at the IBM Systems – Lab Services covering Europe and the Middle East in client facing areas of IBM i, database, and WebSphere performance (as well as AIX and Oracle).
Morten has 30 years of experience in the computing field. He started working with the S/38 and AS/400 in 1988 as programmer.

Kaare Plesner, CEO of iPerformance

Kaare is a performance specialist on the IBM i platform .
He developed and taught advanced classes focused on optimizing application performance in collaboration with IBM in 24 countries over the course of 20+ years.
He is a speaker at COMMON conferences in Europe and overseas.
Specialties: Optimization of computer applications running on IBM i

Simon Porstendorfer, IBM
ISV Ecosystem Lead EMEA

Simon spent the last 20 years with IBM in various sales roles from Client Executive in the Business Partner Channel up to being the responsible Principal Offering Manager for Power Scale Out Worldwide. Today he is back in EMEA as responsible for the ISV Ecosystems on AIX and IBM i.

IT-Infrastructure related sessions at IBM Think

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At Think, you’ll have the chance to directly engage with world-class experts, industry leaders and peers. Learn all about the future of hybrid cloud and AI and see how Power Systems deliver the security, reliability and performance necessary in an effective hybrid cloud strategy.

Security Keynote

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IBM Cross Systems

Session ID 2081: A deep dive into the IBM innovations powering the next generation of hardware

Session ID 2019: Understanding flexible consumption: The new way to pay for IT infrastructure

IBM Power Systems

Session ID 1702: Modernizing mission-critical infrastructure using cloud technologies

Session ID 1708: Supporting our healthcare heroes: IT agility and the pandemic response

Session ID 1736: Pfizer’s 2020 successes aided by SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems

Session ID 2025: Making DNA storage more cost-efficient

Session ID 2076: CSI, top UK MSP, enables leading trading platform to manage unprecedented volumes

What you’ll find at Think…

Personalized curriculum:

  • Gain insights and perspectives from IBM executives, product leaders and clients who are leveraging Power Systems technology in their journey to hybrid cloud.

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  • Learn about the latest technologies and make yourself indispensable by upgrading your Power Systems skills through technical breakouts, hands-on labs, master classes and discounted certification exams.

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  • Participate in virtual forums and interactive IBM Power Systems experiences. Chat one-on-one and collaborate with the pros who create the technology you use every day.Sellers Contact InformationFull Name Goes HereTitlediam nonummynibheuismodtinciduntutemail: laoreetdolore magnaIT Infrastructure at Think 2021Register for free today at ibm.com/think
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