http://www.thinkasg.com thinkASG Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:06:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Team thinkASG just concluded the first 6 of 12 Over the Hump (OTH) mountain bike races on June 29th!   Congratulations to the team for finishing 6 races so far and is still injury free!  For a month and a half we've been convening every Tuesday nite to join 700 or so ... http://www.thinkasg.com/blog/thinkasg-family-fun/team-thinkasg-rides-in-over-the-hump-mountain-bike-series Perhaps it was the lineup of speakers, the passion for storage, or maybe the opportunity to play golf and get out of the office before the big Memorial Day Weekend. Either way, the day was packed with customers, speakers, and seasoned architects to continue the ongoing discussion of SAN vs ... http://www.thinkasg.com/blog/solutions/san-vs-nas-weighing-the-options Our CEO, David Browning, has answers to 3 key questions you should ask yourself before you embark on a new ERP selection and implementation project.  Check out the questions and his answers in the attached link. 3 Questions... http://www.thinkasg.com/uncategorized/investing-in-an-erp-solution-3-questions-to-ask If you haven't already gone through one, you will soon enough. IBM randomly chooses clients for Software Compliance Audits throughout the year. In most cases they come to you in the form of a workbook that is to be filled out and returned in 2 weeks - no exceptions. These workbooks ... http://www.thinkasg.com/blog/professional-services/ibm-software-compliance-audits-oh-boy When advising my clients as to why they should upgrade to P7, the following aways applies as immediate benefits to the customer: 1. P7 delivers better performance and depending if you're replacing P5 or P6 you see between 3:1 and 4:1 increase 2. P7 will allow you to do more with less ... http://www.thinkasg.com/blog/solutions/why-should-you-upgrade-to-ibm-power7 thinkASG, IBM and Bramasol/SAP joined forces and gathered their valued clients and prospects for a fun evening of hockey at the Staples Center. After all, everybody enjoys the inter-county rivalry of the Anaheim Ducks vs the Los Angeles Kings! We met at the VIP entrance to be escorted by the Kings ... http://www.thinkasg.com/blog/solutions/thinkasg-power-play-kings-vs-ducks-april-3rd Too many times I have seen customers fully thinking that they have their Disaster Recovery (DR) taken care of due to the fact that they have successfully been backing up their environment and have it on tape at the vaulting company.  If you are one of these people raise your hand… I’ll ... http://www.thinkasg.com/blog/professional-services/a-good-nights-sleep-with-a-solid-disaster-recovery-plan Wow!  That is the word that comes to mind from our announcement event.  From Intel's newest saleable Nehalem EX processors to IBM's incorporation of these processors into fully redesigned and MASSIVELY scaleable SystemX servers.  You want a Terabyte of memory for those virtual servers?  No problem.  You want a shared ... http://www.thinkasg.com/blog/industry-news/thinkasgs-ex5-announcement-event-redefines-excitement On a brisk and windy day in Southern California, several customers took the time to attend our Tivoli Table Topics (T3) event at the Irvine office. A quick poll of the participants showed that our agenda seemed to well match what customers wanted to hear. Topics included: TSM v6.1 News - Modernization ... http://www.thinkasg.com/blog/professional-services/tivoli-table-topics-event-march-10-2010 A timeline of continued xSeries innovation, investment and differentiation: In 2001 IBM introduced their first generation in the Enterprise X-Architecture (EXA) systems. The x440 was the first scalable 16 Socket x 86 platform available in a form factor smaller than Unisys’ entire rack. Its small form factor was not its ... http://www.thinkasg.com/blog/industry-news/ibms-ex5-x86-redefined