Who are Global Knowledge’s IBM Master Instructors?: The Hardware Gurus (Part 1)

What do you know about IBM’s Master Instructor Program? Anything, everything, nothing at all? Well, in case you haven’t heard, IBM and Global Knowledge have partnered to bring you Global Knowledge’s IBM Master Instructor Program. Now, it’s time to meet them!

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Deconstructing IBM Data Engine for Analytics

Over time, we accumulate data — all sorts of data, and a lot of it. This past year my discussions around storage solution design now routinely use the word petabyte, where, just last year the same discussion would likely have used the word terabyte. Here is a statistic to consider: the amount of data accumulated every 48 hours today is about equal to the sum total of all information in human history generated until the year 2003. Big data, indeed! Like mining for gold, there is valuable information hidden in all that data, but, like gold ore, that data has to be processed for the value to be extracted.

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Top 5 Starter Tips for AIX Whizzes Who Want to Be Linux Legends

I’ve been an AIX administrator since the MicroChannel days — my first AIX was version 3 — and I’m not expecting AIX to vanish any time soon, but lately I’m hearing a lot about Linux, and it’s looking more and more like my AIX skill set is going to need to be extended to include Linux skills, too. In this post I’m going to address five questions that seem to me likely to arise during this process.

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Women in Tech: Career Advice for Women, by Women

After powering through the IBM Insight conference in Las Vegas last week, IBM’s VP of Big Data, Integration & Governance, Inhi Cho Suh, hosted a panel of five high-ranking female executives shared their advice with a full room of women on how to take charge of their career, and discussed controversial issues in the workplace.

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