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Spectrum celebrates 10 year anniversary
AUCKLAND, NZ – October 26, 2011 – Spectrum Consulting, a professional services company that provides value-add solutions around IBM Power Systems and Storage is turning 10 next month. Spectrum started from humble beginnings on the 7th November 2001 and by focusing on providing turn-key solutions on IBM Power Systems has seen year on year growth. [...]
Spectrum wins Power Business Partner of the Year!
At the 2010 IBM Business Partner Awards, IBM will recognise Business Partners who showed committment to strategic development and who demonstrated strong business growth. The following recognition will be made at the Awards Evening on 10 March 2011: Power Business Partner of the Year System Storage Business Partner of the Year System x Business Partner [...]
Spectrum – Finalist in the 2010 IBM Business Partner Awards
Spectrum annouced as finalist in the 2010 IBM Business Partner Awareds Auckland, NZ – Mar 4th, 2011 – Spectrum Consulting, New Zealand premier provider of IBM Power Systems sales and support was announced today as a finalist in the Dynamic Infrastructure category of the 2010 IBM Business Partner Awards for its storage solution at Weta [...]
A Comparison of PowerVM and VMware Virtualization Performance
With its 2010 launch of a new generation of Power Systems servers and blades based on the POWER7 processor architecture, IBM has extended its market lead and elevated system performance, throughput and energy efficiency to unprecedented levels that far outpace competitors. Most importantly, the new architecture also provides the foundation for the integrated PowerVM virtualization [...]
PowerVM Active Memory Sharing
IBM PowerVM Active Memory Sharing: An Overview IBM PowerVM provides industrial-strength virtualization for Power Systems™ servers running AIX, IBM i, and Linux operating systems. PowerVM now features Active Memory Sharing, the technology that allows you to intelligently exchange memory between running partitions for increased optimization of physical memory resources. Active Memory Sharing enables the sharing [...]
IBM AIX Training 2011
Power System p, AIX and Linux Most of IBM courses include plenty of hands-on lab exercises to reinforce the lectures and let you practice the skills taught in class. You will leave class with the added confidence that only comes from hands-on experience. IBM is the right source for all of your System p, AIX [...]
IBM AIX Version 7.1 Differences Guide
This IBM® Redbooks® publication focuses on the enhancements to IBM AIX® Version 7.1 Standard Edition. It is intended to help system administrators, developers, and users understand these enhancements and evaluate potential benefits in their own environments. AIX Version 7.1 introduces many new features, including: – Domain Role Based Access Control – Workload Partition enhancements – Topas [...]
SONAS reaches New Zealand via Spectrum
Spectrum is proud to announce the first Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) is currently being deployed in New Zealand. The SONAS provides unmatched scalability and seamless upgrade options through the use of IBM’s GPFS (General Parallel File System.) Designed to embrace cloud storage and the petabyte age, it can meet today’s storage challenges with [...]
Spectrum adds value through Power Systems Audit
15 September 2009 The technical team at Spectrum Consulting recently finished a Power Systems Audit of a large publicly listed company in NZ. The audit looked at the Power Systems Hardware, Virtualization, AIX Logical Partitions, and the attached IBM SAN / Storage Servers. The environment was absolutely mission-critical to the business, running the core business [...]
