Cisco Spaces vs. IBM Z

Cisco Spaces is well suited from Small businesses to large businesses. The ability for Cisco Spaces to scale as your business scale is an important feature to leverage, especially for small businesses. The insights for the Cisco Spaces are helpful to the organization with utilizing what access points we have where and what load the access points are taking on. Our business also likes the fact that the switches, access points, and other Cisco equipment can be seen all in one, anywhere anytime. This makes it easier to manage our equipment.

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Most of the time, server utilization is reliable and stable during peak times. Truly amazing, this product offers a lot and gets it done in no time without any confusion.It is reliable, too accurate and the performance is top-notch. It seems to be competitive in all virtual energy systems and its connectivity is also good. It's available at a low cost, but it's enough to have as many low-cost, more efficient systems as possible. It's a minor thing, but very rarely, it can cause work interruptions while it can get stuck due to more frequent use such as restless work. These power servers are very efficient and really help when things go wrong. I am using this product to retrieve data much faster.

• So the first thing it does really well is a lot of our sites are rural, so we don't have very good cellular connectivity. So we invested in this product because we want our clients, our customers that are coming in to be able to walk in and be able to use a our wireless infrastructure just like it was a cellular device. So they don't even know, they walk in, they think, man, my cellular's better right now. I can do all the things that I wanna do. I can do video. And they don't even know. So that's the biggest bonus for us.

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• Virtualization for Scale-Out and Scale-Up in the same footprint
• Security for different workloads: Large Confidential Computing and lightweight Secure Execution
• Performance is a true game changer: extreme throughput powered by amazingly huge caches.
• The one and only FIPS 140-2 Level 4 HSM on this planet
• Quantum Safe Encryption NOW!
• AI infusion to every transaction

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• I would say out-of-the-box plugins. It's very easy to make it for DNA spaces, but I'd love to see more part more companies partner with them so that the plugins are just available to add on right out of the box. You don't have to work with a vendor and say, "Hey, I need you to come in and develop this API", it's already there. That would be the one thing that I would say that could get a little bit more help with.

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• It would be good if IBM could demonstrate more use cases for Z to potential clients
• A migration strategy from Open Systems to Z would be helpful
• Any additional marketing to could explain the benefits of Z/Linux, especially now that RedHat is in the mix.

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The IBM Z mainframe capabilities are unmatched for cloud readiness and optimization the learning capabilities are matched perfectly with Watson and the expandability of the cloud makes it a perfect choice.

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the product has everything that offered and more.

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Once you learn how, it easy. It's different than most other systems

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The Z in IBM Z is for zero down time. If you configure your system according to IBM's best practices, you can achieve zero downtime

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Performance is a major part when you configure your system. IBM has many tools to study your system and suggest the appropriate configuration. With the right contract, you can add processing power dynamically and remove it when no longer needed

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i have never contacted support

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Support is usually superb, only occasionally dropping to very good. We participate in some of the CD (Continuous Delivery) aspects of z/OS, IMS, MQ, and DB2.

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Over my 33 years on this platform, I attended many in person courses, conferences, and other training opportunities.

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There are many online courses from both IBM and other vendors. Most are great. All of the documentation is available online.

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I do not personally have any key insights regarding implementation of IBM Z Enterprise Servers as that is what our mainframe architects do.

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Cisco DNA Spaces is the next iteration for CMX. CMX is be retired and the move to Spaces was just a next step for us. All the features in CMX are present in Spaces. As well as additional features and capabilities.

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IBM Z is the best storage solution as it provides the best in class data protection with the cryptographic hardware keys, no loss in data while migration, and a user-friendly interface that makes it easy for develops to understand and has less of a learning curve. This makes it well above the competition.

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If you need more processing power, just add more CPU's or memory. The largest system can have close to 200 CPU's and 40 TB of memory. If that is not enough, you can add more physical computers, and connect them using a sysplex

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• We collect emails from our customers to populate our email marketing database
• The customers are constantly giving good feedback for the service as an aggregated value to the service
• It has been a good way to get more visits to our eCommerce site which is defined as landing page inside the captive portal

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• With IBM Z we really feel a different positive impact on our company. A trustworthy and the most powerful place we have ever.
• A unique computing platform that helps a lot for the progress of our company.
• It keeps our data save, encrypted.

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