IBM Cloud Paks Redbooks

Innovate at Scale and Deploy with Confidence in a Hybrid Cloud Environment
IBM Z

Redpaper, published 10 May 2021, last updated 20 Oct 2021

According to a recent study, CxOs have embraced hybrid cloud as an essential part of their digital transformation strategies. However, there are still several open-ended questions for most when assessing a hybrid cloud platform. This IBM® Redguide® publication examines some common business challenges and provides solutions based on a decade worth of experience. These solutions include:
- Responding to business needs faster
- Reducing IT cost
- Prioritizing digital transformation
- Adopting hybrid cloud as a de facto enterprise model
In early 2020, IBM and Red ... [more]

Using the IBM Block Storage CSI Driver in a Red Hat OpenShift Environment
Storage Solutions

Redpaper, published 10 May 2021, last updated 12 May 2021

RedHat OpenShift container platform is one of the leading enterprise-grade container orchestration platforms. It is designed for rapid deployment of web applications, databases, and microservices. Categorized as a container orchestration Platform as a Service (PaaS), it is based on open industry standards, such as the Container Runtime Interface - Open (CRI-O) and Kubernetes. OpenShift allow developers to focus on the code, while the platform manages the complex IT operations and processes. Although open-source, community-driven container orchestration platforms are available, such as OKD ... [more]

Red Hat OpenShift V4.X and IBM Cloud Pak on IBM Power Systems Volume 2
Power Systems

Redbooks, published 19 Apr 2021

This IBM® Redbooks® publication educates and prepares its readers to understand and enter the multicloud era. This book takes you on a journey to understand the multicloud concept. This book provides a snapshot of the IBM Cloud® Solution, and it uses generally available and supported software and hardware resources to help you understand the following items:
- The rationale and methodology of this publication.
- New concepts and terminology.
- Reasons for moving native workloads to the cloud.
- Red Hat OpenShift V4.x on Power Systems.
- Reasons for using IBM ... [more]

IBM Integrated Synchronization: Incremental Updates Unleashed
Data and Analytics

Redpaper, published 27 Jan 2021

The IBM® Db2® Analytics Accelerator (Accelerator) is a logical extension of Db2 for IBM z/OS® that provides a high-speed query engine that efficiently and cost-effectively runs analytics workloads. The Accelerator is an integrated back-end component of Db2 for z/OS. Together, they provide a hybrid workload-optimized database management system that seamlessly manages queries that are found in transactional workloads to Db2 for z/OS and queries that are found in analytics applications to Accelerator. Each query runs in its optimal environment for maximum speed and cost efficiency. The ... [more]

IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift Blueprint
Storage Solutions

Blueprint, published 18 Dec 2020

This IBM® Blueprint is intended to facilitate the deployment of IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform by using detailed hardware specifications to build a system. It describes the associated parameters for configuring persistent storage within a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environment. To complete the tasks, you must understand Red Hat OpenShift, IBM Storage, the IBM block storage Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, and the IBM Spectrum Scale CSI driver. The information in this document is distributed on an “as is” basis without any warranty that is either ... [more]

 Next

The above is a list of IBM Redbooks and Redpapers on IBM Cloud Paks, showing most recently published first. IBM Redbooks publications are available for download in PDF and EPUB formats and most are also available on Google Play Books and Apple Books.