Jerry Crossfield | l3c.cloud

September 25, 2017

Does your AIX/Unix Dev/Test environment need a SLA?

by Jerry Crossfield in AIX, Cloud Computing

Moving Dev/Test workloads to cloud/hosted environments are often the first step for organisations when considering cloud or off premise hosted deployments. The major Public Clouds started attracting workloads in this way with support being on an ‘as is’ or ‘reasonable efforts’ basis. L3C, a specialist UK AIX/Unix service provider offers flexible and realistic Service Level Agreements […]

September 22, 2017

Why construction companies need better mobile device security

by Jerry Crossfield in Cloud Computing, Security

A recent article in UK Construction Online highlighted why construction companies need to focus on data security. We believe mobile device security should be a key element of their plans. https://www.ukconstructionmedia.co.uk/news/construction-industry-needs-take-data-seriously/ With a long supply chain and use of subcontractors on projects commonplace, the risks of data loss and compromise are increased. Smartphone and tablet usage, […]

September 14, 2017

Comparing a local AIX/Unix Cloud Provider with an AIX Public Cloud

by Jerry Crossfield in AIX, Cloud Computing

Many clients have come to us commenting on adverts from mainly North American companies purporting to be AIX public cloud providers and asking if local AIX cloud service providers would provide a more flexible service than the shoehorn approach they have seen. Certainly by definition a public cloud will have restrictions that prospective users need to be […]

September 14, 2017

What’s stopping AIX and legacy environments being part of your cloud strategy?

by Jerry Crossfield in AIX, Cloud Computing, Power, SAP

Now, for most, the holidays are over and attention directs towards 2018 budgets and strategies. As new workloads are assessed to move to cloud and new initiatives are considered what’s stopping AIX and legacy environments being part of this cloud and digitization strategy? Most companies either have a cloud strategy or are considering building one […]

September 7, 2017

How do you empower your workforce yet maintain mobile device security?

by Jerry Crossfield in Cloud Computing, Security

Mobile access via smartphone, tablet or laptop to corporate applications is a key element in empowering staff and improving productivity. Employees today expect a very different relationship with technology than they have done in the past and it is no wonder when estimates show that within five years there are likely to be 10bn devices […]

July 31, 2017

Migrating UNIX Apps to the Cloud

by Jerry Crossfield in AIX, Cloud Computing, Events, L3C Events

L3C hosted the first London Unix Meetup bringing together like minded people to discuss the challenges of UNIX and LINUX migrations and all things Cloud…There was lively debate and discussion that would have extended well beyond our expected ending time of 7pm where we had to venture to a more suitable place for one of […]

July 28, 2017

Does having old Unix environments mean you are trapped in a world of constraint, high maintenance costs and sleepless nights?

by Jerry Crossfield in AIX, Cloud Computing, Power

We’ve had many discussions where clients have expressed feeling they are being constrained by often critical but legacy Unix infrastructures. Whether long forgotten AIX 5.x versions or Solaris or HP-UX there has been a desire to move forward but the project has often been filed in the too hard folder. However, as these legacy infrastructures […]

July 21, 2017

Did the Top 10 Predictions on AIX come true?

by Jerry Crossfield in Cloud Computing, Power

I stumbled across a 2013 version of IBM Systems Magazine from 2013 entitled ‘Top 10 Reasons AIX Will Endure’ Intrigued to find out what these predictions on the future were I opened the article and the reasons could roughly be grouped as follows: AIX Ease of Use The article discusses command line tools and even […]

July 13, 2017

Considering SAP HANA on IBM Power

by Jerry Crossfield in AIX, Cloud Computing, Power, SAP

Introduction Early stage – appliances In the last few years there has been a significant interest around SAP’s most progressive product – its in-memory database product SAP HANA. SAP HANA was announced in 2010 and made generally available in 2011. At the beginning SAP embraced the approach of supporting only hardware appliances for SAP HANA. […]

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