Every IBM Power Systems administrator eventually encounters the “Black Box” scenario: an LPAR is triggered to reboot, no Reference Code appears on the HMC, and the terminal remains frozen—often stuck on a…
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Stop Wasting CPU Cycles: Hardware-Accelerated Compression on IBM Power
Data compression is standard requirement in modern IT infrastructure. We do it daily to save storage space and reduce network bandwidth. However, traditional software compression comes with a hidden tax—it is a…
ACID (SQL) and BASE (NoSQL) in databases
Why, in the cloud era, do we still keep these monolithic IBM Power Machines in our data centers? Isn’t it cheaper to rewrite everything into microservices and scatter it across thousands of…
Ansible Execution Environments in IBM Power Automation.
Anyone who has tried to maintain a consistent environment for running playbooks, whether on a dedicated Ansible Control Node or any other server, knows how quickly reconciling the requirements of different collections,…