Enterprise Tech Spotlight

This special episode of Enterprise Tech Spotlight features a discussion about IBM's announcement on February 11, 2020 about IBM FlashSystem Storage. Keith Hales is joined by a special guest, Tony Owens, Senior Solutions Architect at Arrow Electronics, to unpack IBM's announcement and discuss what it means for IBM Storage customers and the storage marketplace in general.

In part two of this podcast episode, InfoSystems' EVP and CISO, Fred Cobb, and COO, Keith Hales, discuss SOC 2, the industry "gold standard" certification for IT Companies providing Cybersecurity services. SOC 2 certification is authorized by the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) and proves a company is qualified to handle sensitive/financial data securely.

In part one of this podcast episode, InfoSystems' EVP and CISO, Fred Cobb, and COO, Keith Hales, discuss the things you should think about when evaluating an IT Services Provider. It's no secret that IT companies are often chosen for the wrong reasons - company politics, personal relationships, etc. In this episode Fred and Keith talk through important qualifications that your IT Services Provider should have and how you can ask questions that will help you qualify them.

In this episode, Keith Hales, COO at InfoSystems, and Robert Goodwin, Sr Director of Engineering Services at InfoSystems, discuss how IBM Power servers are different from other types of servers and how their architecture makes them extremely secure. While IBM Power servers are often used to run IBM's own I and AIX operating systems, they also run Linux, one of the most popular open-source operating systems in use today. In fact, there is evidence that Linux runs even faster and more efficiently on IBM Power servers with IBM Power9 chips than on the more popular server platforms that use Intel chips.

IBM Power servers have a reputation of being extremely easy to manage. It has been said that for every one IBM Power server administrator, a company would need ten Microsoft Windows server administrators. In this episode of the Enterprise Tech Spotlight podcast, Keith Hales, COO at InfoSystems, and Robert Goodwin, Sr Director of Engineering Services at InfoSystems, discuss how and why IBM Power server environments can be managed so easily and efficiently.

Episode 2 of the Enterprise Tech Spotlight podcast is a 3-part series covering IBM Power Systems, one of the most powerful server platforms on the market today (thanks to the extremely powerful IBM Power9 chips). Servers are the enterprise network components that run enterprise applications such as accounting, CRM, ERP, MES, and WMS. The more powerful the server, the faster your applications will run. The IBM Power platform excels in running both legacy software applications and next-generation workloads such as data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and blockchain.

"Protect Your Data with IBM Storage"

In part 3 (of 3) of this podcast episode, InfoSystems' Senior Director of Engineering, Robert Goodwin and COO, Keith Hales discuss protecting your storage environment with IBM Storage. This episode is perfect for those looking into revisiting the process by which they are backing up and protecting company data.

"Manage Your Storage with IBM Storage"

In part 2 (of 3) of this podcast episode covering IBM Storage, InfoSystems' Senior Director of Engineering, Robert Goodwin and COO, Keith Hales discuss managing your storage environment. This episode is perfect for businesses who need to know what to look for from managed service providers when it comes to building and managing your storage environment.

We're excited to launch season 2 of "Enterprise Tech Spotlight" (formerly "The Business of Enterprise IT") and hope you enjoy all of the topics we plan to cover in 2020.

In part 1 (of 3) of this podcast episode, InfoSystems' Senior Director of Engineering, Robert Goodwin and COO, Keith Hales discuss building your storage environment with IBM Storage. This episode is perfect for executive leaders who need to be involved in technology decisions, but who need an overview of the basics of data storage systems.

In this podcast episode, Nate Vaughn of Red Hat joins InfoSystems Marketing Director, Josh Davis, to discuss the ways in which open source technologies are enabling transformation in all types of organizations. Red Hat manages a distro of the open source operating system, Linux, which is one of the most popular OS platforms in the world. Companies like Red Hat, who are able to build a business model around open source technology, are crucial to the ongoing development and maintenance of these platforms.