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Networking

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21
Apr

This guide looks at networking services and explains how infrastructure may respond to real world workloads.

DNA IT Solutions have been chosen as one of just a few IBM Partners in Ireland. Selected based on our experience and expertise in providing customer solutions that work.

We offer this enterprise cloud solution to our larger clients that have more complex requirements. We implement your transition, scoping and planning to make the transition easier.

Never neglect your network

It’s easy to spend 99 percent of your time on infrastructure pieces without understanding how it all may or may not respond to real-world workloads. IBM is here to help. IBM Cloud offers networking solutions for the real world – exclusively designed to enhance your traffic, satisfy your users and protect your sanity.

Protect your customer image with quality networking

Public, private and management traffic travel separate interfaces, segregating and securing while streamlining management.

Remove or add services on demand

Easily provision and update network resources on demand as your traffic needs fluctuate. Optimize your delivery model Distribute resources to your end users quickly and consistently around the world with industry-leading redundancy and optimization software.

Command

Distribute applications to your end users quickly and consistently around the world with a wide selection of industry-leading redundancy and optimization software.

Choose your product

Use these products to optimize your move to the IBM Cloud high-performance global infrastructure.

Content Delivery Network

Give your data storage solutions longer reach through seamless integration with our Content Delivery Network — built on IBM Cloud locations and data centers. Avoid traffic jams and bottlenecks and shorten the distance your data has to travel to get to your end-users with 24 geographically diverse nodes and pay-asyou- go bandwidth.

Appliances

Save the hassle of provisioning multiple hardware solutions to serve as routers, firewalls and load balancers. Deploy Citrix NetScaler or Vyatta Gateway Appliances, and quickly set and tweak complex network settings in an easy-to-use interface. Reduce your touchpoints quickly and easily with an all-in-one network appliance.

Load balancer

Get your very own data traffic cop to distribute all traffic loads so no single device gets overwhelmed. Choose local, global, or high availability options suited to your specific workload. Activate, change, or deactivate your load balancing features on demand—at any time.

Appliances

Save on data transfers, protect your network path and move data to and from your onpremises center faster with private point-topoint connections. All traffic across Direct Link and between your servers does not touch the public network or interfere with your public network traffic. You get unrestricted access to your servers on the IBM Cloud platform.

Domain Name Service

Let IBM handle your .coms and .orgs. Let IBM handle your domain registration services, complete with dedicated support staff and customer service. Get easy-to-comprehend monthly summaries of account activity.

Network Security

Provide your business increased control over your
cloud infrastructure, while helping to protect
your servers and network.

Port speed upgrades

Get port speeds up to 10 Gbps and dual uplink configurations for redundant network connectivity.

Bandwidth packages

Deliver higher volumes of data with multiple public network bandwidth options, including metered or unmetered per server.

Extra IPv4 and IPv6 addresses

Get more IPv6 addresses in /64 blocks, or more IPv4 addresses in quantities of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 or 32.

Network as a service

Empower as-a-service capabilities with software-defined solutions that allow you to set and tweak complex settings from one user-friendly interface.

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Blog, IBM cloud solutions

IBM Storage

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21
Apr

DNA IT Solutions have been chosen as one of just a few IBM Partners in Ireland. Selected based on our experience and expertise in providing customer solutions that work.

We offer this enterprise cloud solution to our larger clients that have more complex requirements. We implement your transition, scoping and planning to make the transition easier.

IBM Cloud Storage solutions

Stay ahead of rapid storage growth driven by new data sources and evolving technologies with the IBM Cloud Storage family — a flexible storage approach

Cloud storage resources for all your needs

Whether looking for stand-alone or secondary storage for a server, an out-of-the-box storage solution or the components to create your own storage solution, IBM has the cloud storage resources you need.

Global

Deploy cloud storage in strategic locations around the world. Achieve higher performance and meet data-sovereignty requirements by keeping data close to applications and users.

Scalable

Scale capacity up or down, on demand, with little or no interruption to your service. Scale from terabytes to petabytes and beyond.

Flexible

Select from a broad portfolio of storage technologies – including block, file and object – to suit your workloads. Choose from a range of deployment options – including on premises, cloud and managed by IBM.

File storage

Upgrade your file storage with a highperformance, feature-rich, NFS-based solution. With file-share capacities available up to 12 TB, IBM Cloud file storage can be provisioned with snapshot and replication support or with unparalleled IOPS allocations to meet the performance needs of even the most demanding workloads.

Simplicity

Deploy and manage storage capabilities quickly and easily from a web-based graphical user interface, a web portal or through expansive APIs.

Choose your storage product

Choose from robust and durable object, block and file storage services.

Object storage

Organize, store, manage and access a diverse array of objects — audio, emails, images, office documents and video — with a highly scalable and geographically-dispersed storage solution based on OpenStack Swift or S3-compatible interfaces. Capitalize on flexible pricing and get the capacity you need, when and where you need it.

Block storage

Exercise complete control over persistent storage using iSCSI-based block storage with up to 12 TB of capacity. Customize the storage environment to suit your workloads. Choose Endurance block storage with snapshot and replication capabilities or Performance block storage with up to 6,000 allocated IOPS per volume.

Domain Name Service

Let IBM handle your .coms and .orgs. Let IBM handle your domain registration services, complete with dedicated support staff and customer service. Get easy-to-comprehend monthly summaries of account activity.

Network Security

Provide your business increased control over your
cloud infrastructure, while helping to protect
your servers and network.

Port speed upgrades

Get port speeds up to 10 Gbps and dual uplink configurations for redundant network connectivity.

Bandwidth packages

Deliver higher volumes of data with multiple public network bandwidth options, including metered or unmetered per server.

Extra IPv4 and IPv6 addresses

Get more IPv6 addresses in /64 blocks, or more IPv4 addresses in quantities of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 or 32.

Network as a service

Empower as-a-service capabilities with software-defined solutions that allow you to set and tweak complex settings from one user-friendly interface.


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Data Management

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21
Apr

This guide explains how IBM helps create smarter applications and finds the right database for your app.

Data services

Deploy databases in minutes for your Watson AI-powered app

DNA IT Solutions have been chosen as one of just a few IBM Partners in Ireland. Selected based on our experience and expertise in providing customer solutions that work. We offer this enterprise cloud solution to our larger clients that have more complex requirements. We implement your transition, scoping and planning to make the transition easier.

Data Management from IBM Cloud

Create smarter applications

IBM Watson® APIs help you enable your apps and products with Al capabilities. IBM Cloud provides the persistence layers to power your Al app and get the most out of your Watson services.

Ingest

Pull in diverse data through streaming and batch ETL, and prepare it for analytics and operational use.

Persist

Choose the storage option best suited to your data — from RDBMS to every type of NoSQL

Analyze

Allow every type of user to perform the right kind of analysis

Create

Build smarter applications with embedded intelligence

Advisory Managed IT Services

Find the right database for your app

The right databases are empowering, the wrong databases are limiting. Each IBM-hosted database can be deployed in the cloud, on premises or in a hybrid environment. All IBM Cloud databases take just minutes to set up and connect to your data. Strong security (2FA, SSL, encryption), multi-node replication, high availability, auto-scaling, failover, backups, database logs, user permissions and roles, and many more features come standard with most offerings.

Cloudant:

A NoSQL JSON document store optimized for heavy workloads of concurrent reads and writes..

Compose

A database engine powering over 10 open source SQL and NoSQL databases.

Compose for Elasticsearch

Combines the flexibility of a full-text search engine with the power of JSON indexing.

Compose for etcd

A key/value store that holds the always-correct data needed to manage server clusters.

Compose for JanusGraph

A scalable graph database optimized for storing and querying highly-interconnected data.

Compose for MongoDB

Powerful indexing and querying combined with automated scaling and backup.

Compose for MySQL

A fast, easy-to-use RDBMS with connectors including Python, PHP and C++.

Compose for PostgreSQL

An object-relational SQL database with indexable JSON, pub/sub functions and drivers.

Compose for Redis

Use counters, queues, lists and hyperlogs to handle complex data issues simply..

Compose for RethinkDB

A distributed database optimized for JSON documents and the real-time web.

Compose for ScyllaDB

A NoSQL column-store that boasts 1 million transactions per second per node.

Db2 Hosted

An on-demand, multi-workload SQL database with full admin access

Db2 on Cloud

A fully-managed SQL cloud database configured and optimized for robust performance.

Db2 Warehouse on Cloud

A fully-managed, cloud data warehouse service powered by IBM BLU Acceleration.

Informix on Cloud

High-performance engine that integrates TimeSeries, Spatial, NoSQL and SQL data together.

Master Data Management (MDM) on Cloud

Gain a trusted view of data in a hybrid computing environment.

Information Server on Cloud

Understand, govern, create, maintain, transform and deliver quality data.

Lift

Migrate data quickly, easily and securely via a CLI.


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Compute

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21
Apr

IBM COMPUTE

DNA IT Solutions have been chosen as one of just a few IBM Partners in Ireland. Selected based on our experience and expertise in providing customer solutions that work.

We offer this enterprise cloud solution to our larger clients that have more complex requirements. We implement your transition, scoping and planning to make the transition easier.

Compute services

Drive your applications and workloads with as much or as little IT control as you want, from virtual servers to serverless resources.

IBM Cloud compute services flexibly drives the end user experiences that you want. Whether you need to tune an application with specific OS access requirements, provide a stateless API that services high request volumes and delivers special services, or implement microservices that quickly and automatically adapt to use, IBM Cloud has you covered. T

Application compute as flexible as your business needs

Choose the compute type that enables your teams to rapidly deliver and iterate applications for the customers in your market.

Develop cloud-enabled and cloud-native applications

IBM Cloud compute facilitates architectural and development strategies that make existing on-premises applications work with new applications developed in the cloud.


Open source works better together

Those who actively participate in the IBM Cloud Foundry and Docker development projects provide the benefits of their perspective in making sure that open source code versions are optimally integrated into IBM Cloud.

Choose the right compute model

Not sure what model of compute best supports the app or service you are building? We can help to point you in the right direction so you make the correct decision for your business.

Choose your products

Move your workloads to the IBM Cloud high-performance global cloud infrastructure.

Cloud Virtual Servers

This is public and dedicated virtual servers that provision and scale on demand. Virtual servers are scalable virtual servers that are purchased with dedicated cores and memory allocations. They are a great option if you are looking for compute resources, that can be added in minutes, with access to features like image templates. Virtual servers are fully customizable when you order them, with options to scale up as your compute needs grow.

Cloud Functions

Based on Apache OpenWhisk IBM Cloud Functions is a polyglot functions-as-a-service (FaaS) programming platform for developing lightweight code that scalably executes on demand. IBM Cloud Functions accelerates application development, which enables developers to quickly build apps with action sequences that execute in response to our event-driven world.

Auto scaling

Automatically grow or shrink your cloud environment based on demand. Pay for the resources you need, only when you need them. Meet your workload demands without keeping (and paying for) underutilised capacity. When you run limited-time product specials that bring in a flood of users, you can auto scale your resources to keep up with increased resource demands.

Bare Metal Servers

Bare metal servers provide power for processor I/O-intensive workloads. We can configure the hardware to exact specifications via a portal or API and deploy in real time. This is high-performance cloud servers configurable in hourly and monthly options. Choose a processor that best meets your performance needs. Upgrade from the base configuration to fine tune the hardware for your workload. Provision servers in IBM Cloud data centers around the world in hours.

Container Registry

Organize, store, manage and access a diverse array of objects — audio, emails, images, office documents and video — with a highly scalable and geographically-dispersed storage solution based on OpenStack Swift or S3-compatible interfaces. Capitalize on flexible pricing and get the capacity you need, when and where you need it.

Container Service

Orchestrate intelligent scheduling, self-healing and horizontal scaling. Advanced capabilities for building cloud-native apps, adding DevOps to existing apps, and relieving the pain around security, scale, and infrastructure management. Combining Docker and IBM Cloud Container Service to orchestrate intelligent scheduling, self-healing, and horizontal scaling for rapid delivery of your apps

Cloud Foundry

Deploy and scale apps without manually configuring and managing servers. Application Runtimes based on Cloud Foundry ensure that the build and deploy aspects of coding remain carefully coordinated with any attached services, resulting in quick, consistent, and reliable iterating of applications. Runtimes get innovative ideas to market fast with reduced development costs, leveling the field of opportunity so that any organization can keep up with or set a new pace of market transformation. And scale effortlessly

WebSphere Application Server on Cloud

Launch new or existing Java apps in the cloud, with single and multi-tenant options. This service gives you the WebSphere Application Server experience in Bluemix. Choose from traditional or Liberty installations of WebSphere Application Server, preconfigured and hosted on your own Red Hat Enterprise Linux guest.


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Mobile

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21
Apr

This guide explains how IBM can power your mobile applications with its smart mobile Cloud.

DNA IT Solutions have been chosen as one of just a few IBM Partners in Ireland. Selected based on our experience and expertise in providing customer solutions that work.

We offer this enterprise cloud solution to our larger clients that have more complex requirements. We implement your transition, scoping and planning to make the transition easier.

The platform and tools to build native mobile apps and robust mobile back ends

Build smarter mobile services and applications using IBM Cloud. Build, launch and maintain native, hybrid or web-based mobile apps. Speed and optimise mobile app development with IBM Cloud solutions

IBM Cloud offers solutions and services built to enable you to accelerate and optimise mobile app development. The IBM Cloud Developer Console empowers you to quickly architect, prototype and bring apps to market within hours or days rather than weeks or months. With IBM Cloud Mobile Services, you can use enterprise-proven mobile capabilities to answer competitive challenges and exploit market trends.

IBM Cloud gives you the flexibility to choose from the latest cloud architectures and languages. Build your app and extend its capabilities with engaging and powerful services and data such as IBM Watson®, IBM Internet of Things platform, Weather Company data and more. Extend your mobile app to the web with web-enabled services like IBM Cloud App ID and IBM Push Notifications.

Disrupting traditional business with new IT

Mobile is better on the IBM Cloud. With IBM Cloud, you can focus on delivering great apps quickly and securely with less worry about backend issues.

Building successful mobile apps: Learn about a comprehensive approach for developing mobile business applications, including best practices for collaborative software lifecycle management.

Choose your products

IBM offers the platform and tools you need to build native mobile apps and robust mobile back ends.

Your first iOS or Android mobile app: iOS app with Push and Analytics. Quickly create an iOS Swift application with high-value mobile services like Push Notifications and Mobile Analytics on IBM Cloud.

Android app with Push and Analytics: Quickly create an Android native application with high-value mobile services like Push Notifications and Mobile Analytics on IBM Cloud.

Mobile application with serverless back end: Learn how to use IBM Cloud Functions along with other cognitive and data services to build a serverless back end for a mobile application.

Mobile Foundation

    • Scalable, secure mobile access that simplifies integration with backend and cloud services.
    • App ID – Add authentication to web and mobile apps, including through social login.
    • Mobile Analytics – Monitor performance and usage of all your applications from your desktop or tablet.
    • Push Notifications – Send real-time notifications to mobile and web applications.

IBM Cloud solutions for existing mobile apps

    1. Prototype, build or update existing mobile apps. Rapidly build using Code Starters for data, weather and Watson services.
    2. Extend existing mobile apps using back-end–for– front-end architecture. Achieve best-in-class c loud-native design by using back ends tailored to each front end.
    3. Develop more intelligent apps with Watson services. Add intelligence to your mobile apps with cognitive capabilities

Build native mobile apps for Android or iOS

  • Build your iOS app on IBM Cloud
  • Build your Android app on IBM Cloud
  • Build your hybrid mobile app on IBM Cloud • Build your web-based mobile app on IBM Cloud • Build Swift mobile apps in the cloud • Move your IBM Mobile Foundation app to IBM Cloud • Build, iterate and innovate with Mobile Foundation on IBM Cloud.

More IBM Cloud solutions for mobile

IBM DevOps Services on IBM Cloud: Respond to market and customer needs faster. Scale DevOps to the enterprise without disruption. Build a startup culture.

IBM Cloud Functions: Use a serverless architecture to meet the evolving demands of the mobile-driven user experience.

IBM Cloud Container Service: Package and deploy apps that you want to run across multiple environments.