No Doubt, IBM Insight Will Be Exciting Underneath It All

October 23, 2014 John Mark Ivey Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Please forgive me if I’m a little extra excited about IBM Insight next week. Last year when I attended IBM Information on Demand (IOD) 2013, the predecessor to this year’s re-christened IBM Insight, IBM had just named us a Global Training Provider after the company decided to turn the reigns of its training over to outside companies. IBM IOD was the first IBM conference I attended after that announcement. I soon found IBMers are very social media savvy. I thought only Cisco Live! and VMworld attendees were that active. I had found my people!

From Angry Birds to Coke: Top 5 Sessions at IBM Enterprise 2014

September 30, 2014 Jenee Davis Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Since Global Knowledge became an IBM Global Training Provider and launched their IBM training practice last year, I’ve been to a total of 10 IBM shows (both hardware and software). It sounds like a huge number in such a short time, but it gets even crazier when you add in the fact that Enterprise 2014 will be the first show I’m attending as a full on alumna. Last year’s show was high energy and for the Global Knowledge team it was like returning to our hometown. We had a big presence and we even ran into some former VMware and Red Hat students, which is always awesome.

A Brief History of Logical Volumes

August 28, 2014 Iain Campbell Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Permanent data storage normally uses HDD technology originally developed by IBM in the mid 1950s. Today, HDDs are typically aggregated into arrays in storage appliances using various methods to provide redundancy in case of the failure of any single HDD. In this case, the array, or a portion of the storage space in the array, will be presented to a client OS as a logical unit (LUN). This is not yet logical volume management (LVM), however, the LUN still appears to the OS as a single, large-capacity storage device. For LVM purposes, there is no functional difference between a local HDD and a LUN, so we will simply call either type of storage a disk.

Combating the System Z Zombie Threat

June 6, 2014 Katherine Milan Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

So when last we left our heroes/heroines (the mainframers), they alone stood between us and total chaos. As anyone who’s watched a horror movie knows, there’s safety in numbers, and so in terms of fighting a potential apocalypse, growing the ranks of the mainframers is priority number one. That task is exactly what IBM and Global Knowledge have started to tackle together.

What I Learned from Kevin Spacey at IBM Impact

May 8, 2014 John Mark Ivey Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

I attended my first IBM Impact conference last week, and it was an eye-opening experience. So much going on with WebSphere, the mainframe’s 50th anniversary, and so many mentions of IBM’s new developer tool BlueMix, I could hardly keep up.