Sharon Trembley | Miro Consulting

Short-Sighted to Call IBM and Its Employees Obsolete

March 10, 2016January 3, 2017 Sharon TrembleyIBM

Because I still bleed blue as a former IBMer, articles were emailed to me regarding this current round of resource actions. These layoffs do not penalize poor performers because recipients of a 1 PBC (gold star employees) are part of the action; also the internal advocates who publicly blog about IBM’s products or run the official IBM wikis to deep dive into the beauty of IBM’s products are also released into the wild. One article in particular by Dana Blankenhorn […]

IBM licensing and eligibility for sub-capacity licensing

January 26, 2015January 3, 2017 Sharon TrembleyIBM

IBM is a leading expert with partitioning and server virtualization technologies. They recognize non-IBM technology also, like VMWare, as a way to meet the demand for flexibility. They introduced subcapacity licensing in 2005 as a tool to assist customers in maintaining compliance in a dynamic environment

PVU licensing for DR with IBM DB2

January 22, 2015 Sharon TrembleyIBMLeave a Comment

Some vendors and products need fully licensed Disaster Recovery. Not so with PVU licensing for IBM’s DB2. I’ll explain, but first let me explain IBM-speak regarding DR servers. The IBM Software Group describes servers as Hot, Warm, and Cold, and those terms have been adopted where DB2 is installed.

IBM audits: complicated and getting nasty

October 22, 2014 Sharon TrembleyCompliance, IBM, IT Asset Management, Software auditLeave a Comment

IBM audits are never welcome, but they are increasingly becoming part of the norm. Why? IBM has targeted software to comprise 50% of its total revenue by 2015– this growth is not from SoftLayer or Watson’s cognitive computing alone.

ILMT – IBM Licensing Metric Tool

July 29, 2014July 1, 2014 Sharon TrembleyIBM, software asset management, software licenseLeave a Comment

To license IBM software by subcapacity, the IBM subcapacity licensing terms under Passport Advantage require customers to install and run ILMT (IBM Licensing Metric Tool).

What is Multiplexing?

July 15, 2014July 1, 2014 Sharon TrembleyIBM, licensingLeave a Comment

Multiplexing allows multiple signals or users to use the same portal to access a program or application. The term was originally used to describe multiple telephone calls that can be carried simultaneously on one wire.

IBM POWER8 built for Big Data

July 1, 2014 Sharon TrembleyIBM, licensingLeave a Comment

POWER8 processor technical information has been released through the OpenPOWER Foundation (formed in August 2013 by IBM, Google, Mallanox, Nvidia and Tyan). IBM expects this move to solve problems for the data center ecosystem by allowing derivative products.

Author: Sharon Trembley