Month: March 2016

PureApplication 2.2

PureApplication 2.2

Last week, IBM announced the general availability of PureApplication System, Software, and Service version 2.2. There are a lot of exciting developments in this release.

As previously announced, there is now a beta offering of OpenStack Kilo on Intel-based systems.

There are a number of multi-system enhancements that I’m excited about. For example, we are raising the limit on the number of systems in a subdomain from two to four. We are also alleviating the problem of the proliferation of multi-system shared service deployments, by allowing you to link shared service deployments from one multi-system environment profile to another. We’ve also improved the workflow for managing multi-system certificate trust stores.

We’ve significantly enhanced the chargeback reporting capabilities for PureApplication System in version 2.2. And on top of this list of highlights, there are many additional minor enhancements and improvements.

I’m very proud to have had a small part in reaching this milestone. Congratulations to the rest of the PureApplication development team!

Over rock and under tree

Well, that was fast. In a matter of a few weeks, I made the jump from Knight Wazer to Royalty Wazer, after having driven a total of 4,665 miles. It is interesting to me that, during this period of two and a half weeks, the point value required to reach royalty did not change. It makes sense to me that this value may be recalculated less frequently, perhaps on a weekly or monthly basis, but I crossed both week and month boundaries without the point value being updated.

This indicates to me that the activity at the 1% mark for Waze members—at least in North Carolina—is stagnant, as the 1% bar is not moving. Thus, in North Carolina less than 1% of the total Waze membership is highly active.