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Advanced Technology Services (ATS) Group Achieves IBM Platinum Partner Status
Malvern, PA | March 11, 2019 – Advanced Technology Services (ATS) Group of Malvern, PA, announced today their achievement of Platinum status in the IBM PartnerWorld...
ATS Group Recognized for Excellence in Managed IT Services in CRN’s 2019 MSP 500
Malvern, PA | February 19, 2019 – Advanced Technology Services (ATS) Group, announced today that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named ATS Group to its 2019...
IBM FlashSystem 9100 Combines Performance of NVMe and Capability of Spectrum Virtualize
IBM’s FlashSystem 900 is a high-performing all-flash array. If you want extremely low latency for your application, this is the box for you. However, if you want...
Disaster Recovery with IBM Spectrum Scale & Active File Management (AFM-DR) in AWS
Spectrum Scale is a IBM’s clustered filesystem which provides extreme scalability, high performance and reliability for HPC workloads. Its widely used by major...
From CRN | IBM To Acquire Red Hat For $34 Billion, Makes Bid For Lead In Hybrid Cloud Market
IBM says it is committed to maintaining the open model espoused by Red Hat as the two companies seek to take their 20-year partnership to a new level to upend the...
The Hollywood Recap: Galileo & the ATS Group at the IBM Systems Technical University
For over two decades, the IBM Systems Technical University (TechU) events have delivered technical training for IT professionals on IBM innovations. Each year, IBM...
What Modern Technology Trends Will Impact Your Infrastructure in 2019?
Things move quickly in the business world, particularly when it comes to technology. Strategically adopting emerging solutions can help an organization differentiate...
What can a year's worth of IT data tell you?
A lot can happen in a year, especially when it comes to a business's technology. Just consider your own internal infrastructure: Chances are good that the previous 12...
ATS Group Partners with Cobalt Iron for Innovative, Analytics-Based Data Protection and Precise Service Delivery
The ATS Group, an industry leader in traditional and next-gen infrastructure IT solutions, announced today an integrated and collaborative data protection service...
This is IBM Think 2019 | Coming to San Francisco, March 2019
This post originally appeared on This is Think 2019 and was written by Kate Addicott. In a world that’s creating AI-enabled everything, how do you get more value from...
Getting to Know IBM FlashSystem 9100 | The Performance of Flash and NVMe & the Reliability of FlashCore
The new FlashSystem 9100 combines the high performance of NVMe or IBM FlashCore drives with the advanced capabilities of the Spectrum Virtualize family software stack,...
6 Steps to a Successful, Data-Driven Data Center Migration
Data center migrations have been taking place more frequently over the past few years. Given the demands for reduced on-premise infrastructure, lower operating costs...
Understanding the Zabbix Roadmap & Upcoming 2018/2019 Releases
The ATS Group has extensive experience and expertise in Zabbix implementation services in the United States, pioneering enterprise level, real-time monitoring for...
14 Questions to Ask When Selecting a Modern Capacity & Performance Monitoring Tool
Comprehensive infrastructure visibility is always a challenge. The complex nature of an ever-evolving infrastructure means that, when slowdowns or issues occur, trying...
New eBook | How Data-Driven Performance Monitoring Supports IT Capacity Management
With today’s complex environments, planning for IT capacity is a challenging task. Modern organizations have increasing pressure to predict capacity demands while...
IBM Follows New Recipe to Deliver Performance Gains with POWER9 Servers
By Blake Basom | Sr. Systems Engineer (The ATS Group) IBM has been producing servers based on their line of Power processors for close to 30 years. These servers...
We're headed to Hollywood | Join Galileo & the ATS Group at the Upcoming IBM Systems Technical University
IBM events offer a variety of ways to learn, grow, and connect. As an IBM Gold Business Partner, you can always find the teams from Galileo Performance Explorer and the...
Striking a balance for capacity management with data-driven performance monitoring
Capacity management is a top priority for IT administrators... and for good reason. With all the different factors involved, it’s easy to see why managers want to keep...
Announcing POWER9 E950 & E980 Scale-Up Servers Designed to Fuel Innovation
This post originally appeared on the IBM IT Infrastructure Blog and was written by Steve Sibley (Vice President, Power Systems Offering Management). Published on August...
Point of View: IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0 and Above – New Features and Functionality
By Prasad Surampudi | Sr. Systems Engineer (The ATS Group) Up until a few years ago, only performance, reliability and ease of administration were considered major...
The Power of a Storage Platform: IBM FlashSystem 9100
This post originally appeared on IBM developerWorks and was written by Eric Stouffer. Published on July 10, 2018 | Today, IBM Storage has announced the newest member of...
Proof of Concept: Build, Modernize and Protect with IBM Cloud Private
By Andrew Wojnarek Director of Capacity and Performance Management (CPM) (ATS Innovation Center, Malvern, PA) IBM Cloud Private is a Kubernetes based container...
Proof of Concept: Benchmarking Postgres on IBM Power
By Andrew Wojnarek Director of Capacity and Performance Management (CPM) (ATS Innovation Center, Malvern, PA) Concept Timeline: February – May 2018 PostgreSQL is a...
ATS Group & Galileo Performance Explorer Team Members Participate in Local HfHCC Project
The ATS Group participated in our annual Habitat for Humanity of Chester County’s (HfHCC) build this past Saturday, June 16th. HfHCC’s vision is simple: “A world where...
File Operations Monitoring With IBM Spectrum Scale File Audit Logging
With the release of Spectrum Scale 5.0, IBM is now offering File Audit Logging capability. Spectrum Scale File Audit Logging takes locally generated file system events...
ATS Group, Galileo & IBM: Empowering Optimal IT Infrastructures Together
For years, IBM has been a leading choice for technology solutions within the enterprise industry and beyond. This staple technology giant is responsible for some of...
See What's Happening in Hollywood at the IBM Systems Technical University
IBM events offer a variety of ways to learn, grow, and connect. As an IBM Gold Business Partner, you can always find the teams from Galileo Performance Explorer and the...
Bringing a Fresh Perspective to IT: The Women of Galileo Performance Explorer & the ATS Group
Here at the ATS Group and Galileo Performance Explorer, you don't need to look far to find women who are role models within our company as well as to their peers,...
The ATS Group is Hiring! Immediate Opening for a Junior Linux Administrator
The ATS Group is growing and has an immediate job opening for a motivated, enthusiastic Junior Linux Administrator. ATS specializing in delivering customer-focused...
The ATS Group Announces New Specialist Designation for IBM Storage Systems
Advanced Technology Services (ATS) Group is pleased to announce their recent achievement of IBM Specialist for Storage Systems within their elite IBM Gold Business...
Implementation and Managed Services for IBM Spectrum Scale from The ATS Group
IBM Spectrum Scale, formerly GPFS, is a leading choice to enable high performance, large-scale workloads, both on-premise or in the cloud. This software-defined storage...
Join March Madness on March 29th with the Philadelphia IBM POWER Users Group
You are invited to join the ATS Group for the Philadelphia POWER Users Group's "March Madness" meeting. Learn from industry experts, network with your AIX/Linux...
AWS Certifications Add Value for The ATS Group and Galileo Performance Explorer
Amazon Web Services has been the undisputed leader of the cloud market for years now, providing the support and backbone for some of today's biggest companies and most...
IBM Spectrum Protect and Suse Enterprise Storage 5
A Brief History... The ATS Group has long provided services around the IBM Spectrum Protect product. It has been a mature solution that we continue to standby. We also...
Automating IBM Spectrum Scale Cluster Builds in AWS
As an IBM premier business partner, we are always looking for creative ways to meet our customer’s needs. The demand for low cost, quickly deployed solutions is ever...
IBM Object Cloud Storage
IBM Cloud Object Storage is part of the IBM family of Storage and Software-Defined Infrastructure. IBM Cloud Object storage allows you to choose flexible deployment...
Rob Jackard of The ATS Group Recognized by IBM in their Latest Redbook
With Sr. Systems Engineer, Rob Jackard’s, extensive background and subject manner expertise, he’s often asked to participate in IBM Redbooks as a contributor. Check out...
Required Security Patch Causes Performance Slowdown in Intel CPUs
Releasing a security patch is common practice for top-tier technology providers, aimed at ensuring that their products and hardware can offer the best and most secure...
Spectrum Protect (TSM) User Group meets at ATS Group on Dec 12
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 12:00pm – 4:30pm Come join IBM for a Spectrum Protect product update and roadmap. Come learn about the new Spectrum Protect Plus to protect...
Transparent Cloud Tiering with IBM Spectrum Scale
With the release of IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2.1, IBM is now offering a hybrid cloud solution to leverage object cloud storage as an additional tier within their ILM...
HADOOP ON IBM POWER
Hadoop is undoubtedly the most popular Open Source software suite used to process big datasets using the MapReduce programming model. It makes sense that we’d want to...
Joshua Kwedar of The ATS Group Named as a 2017 Fresh Face of IBM AIX by IBM Systems Magazine
Malvern, PA — The ATS Group announced today that IBM Systems Magazine, published by MSP TechMedia, has named Joshua Kwedar, Senior Systems Engineer at The ATS Group, as...
IBM Spectrum Protect and Backing up to Object Storage in the Cloud
The ATS Group is a business partner specializing in the full IBM enterprise stack, and IBM Spectrum Protect in particular. We’ve helped customers set up IBM Spectrum...
PLUG West Meets at ATS Group
Join us on Tuesday, July 17th for the PLUG West meeting! PLUG West is an extension of PLUG, the Philadelphia Linux Users Group. PLUG members are users of the Linux...
ATS Group Ensures Streamlined Cloud Backups with IBM Spectrum Protect
IBM Spectrum Protect Case Study ATS Group discovered that IBM Spectrum Protect can support robust cloud backups, providing users with the ability to migrate backed up...
The ATS Group Builds with Habitat for Humanity Chester County
The ATS Group participated in our annual Habitat for Humanity of Chester County’s (HfHCC) build this past Saturday, June 10th. HfHCC’s vision is simple: “A world where...
Migrating SLES on IBM POWER Boot-from-SAN LUN to a New Storage Controller
Background Let's face it - doing this type of a migration for AIX would be a breeze. However, SLES on IBM POWER plays by a...
The ATS Group Supports Local Businesses Impacted by COVID-19
IT Managed Services Provider Gives Employees Stipend to Spend at Local Small Businesses [Malvern, PA]: Advanced Technology...
Enterprise DPaaS Powered by Cobalt Iron and IBM
Organizations today face many challenges when it comes to their approach to backup and recovery of their mission-critical...
ATS Group Announces SaaS Offering Making Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud in AWS Effortless
Advanced Technology Services Group Announces SaaS Offering making IBM’s Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud in AWS...
ATS Group Named One of 2019 Tech Elite Solution Providers by CRN
Malvern, PA | March 25, 2019 – Advanced Technology Services (ATS) Group (developers of Galileo Performance Explorer)...
Advanced Technology Services (ATS) Group Achieves IBM Platinum Partner Status
Malvern, PA | March 11, 2019 – Advanced Technology Services (ATS) Group of Malvern, PA, announced today their achievement...
ATS Group Recognized for Excellence in Managed IT Services in CRN’s 2019 MSP 500
Malvern, PA | February 19, 2019 – Advanced Technology Services (ATS) Group, announced today that CRN, a brand of The...
IBM FlashSystem 9100 Combines Performance of NVMe and Capability of Spectrum Virtualize
IBM’s FlashSystem 900 is a high-performing all-flash array. If you want extremely low latency for your application, this is...
Disaster Recovery with IBM Spectrum Scale & Active File Management (AFM-DR) in AWS
Spectrum Scale is a IBM’s clustered filesystem which provides extreme scalability, high performance and reliability for HPC...
From CRN | IBM To Acquire Red Hat For $34 Billion, Makes Bid For Lead In Hybrid Cloud Market
IBM says it is committed to maintaining the open model espoused by Red Hat as the two companies seek to take their 20-year...
The Hollywood Recap: Galileo & the ATS Group at the IBM Systems Technical University
For over two decades, the IBM Systems Technical University (TechU) events have delivered technical training for IT...
What Modern Technology Trends Will Impact Your Infrastructure in 2019?
Things move quickly in the business world, particularly when it comes to technology. Strategically adopting emerging...
What can a year's worth of IT data tell you?
A lot can happen in a year, especially when it comes to a business's technology. Just consider your own internal...
ATS Group Partners with Cobalt Iron for Innovative, Analytics-Based Data Protection and Precise Service Delivery
The ATS Group, an industry leader in traditional and next-gen infrastructure IT solutions, announced today an integrated...
This is IBM Think 2019 | Coming to San Francisco, March 2019
This post originally appeared on This is Think 2019 and was written by Kate Addicott. In a world that’s creating AI-enabled...
Getting to Know IBM FlashSystem 9100 | The Performance of Flash and NVMe & the Reliability of FlashCore
The new FlashSystem 9100 combines the high performance of NVMe or IBM FlashCore drives with the advanced capabilities of...
6 Steps to a Successful, Data-Driven Data Center Migration
Data center migrations have been taking place more frequently over the past few years. Given the demands for reduced...
Understanding the Zabbix Roadmap & Upcoming 2018/2019 Releases
The ATS Group has extensive experience and expertise in Zabbix implementation services in the United States, pioneering...
14 Questions to Ask When Selecting a Modern Capacity & Performance Monitoring Tool
Comprehensive infrastructure visibility is always a challenge. The complex nature of an ever-evolving infrastructure means...
New eBook | How Data-Driven Performance Monitoring Supports IT Capacity Management
With today’s complex environments, planning for IT capacity is a challenging task. Modern organizations have increasing...
IBM Follows New Recipe to Deliver Performance Gains with POWER9 Servers
By Blake Basom | Sr. Systems Engineer (The ATS Group) IBM has been producing servers based on their line of Power...
We're headed to Hollywood | Join Galileo & the ATS Group at the Upcoming IBM Systems Technical University
IBM events offer a variety of ways to learn, grow, and connect. As an IBM Gold Business Partner, you can always find the...
Striking a balance for capacity management with data-driven performance monitoring
Capacity management is a top priority for IT administrators... and for good reason. With all the different factors...
Announcing POWER9 E950 & E980 Scale-Up Servers Designed to Fuel Innovation
This post originally appeared on the IBM IT Infrastructure Blog and was written by Steve Sibley (Vice President, Power...
Point of View: IBM Spectrum Scale 5.0 and Above – New Features and Functionality
By Prasad Surampudi | Sr. Systems Engineer (The ATS Group) Up until a few years ago, only performance, reliability and ease...
The Power of a Storage Platform: IBM FlashSystem 9100
This post originally appeared on IBM developerWorks and was written by Eric Stouffer. Published on July 10, 2018 | Today,...
Proof of Concept: Build, Modernize and Protect with IBM Cloud Private
By Andrew Wojnarek Director of Capacity and Performance Management (CPM) (ATS Innovation Center, Malvern, PA) IBM Cloud...
Proof of Concept: Benchmarking Postgres on IBM Power
By Andrew Wojnarek Director of Capacity and Performance Management (CPM) (ATS Innovation Center, Malvern, PA) Concept...
ATS Group & Galileo Performance Explorer Team Members Participate in Local HfHCC Project
The ATS Group participated in our annual Habitat for Humanity of Chester County’s (HfHCC) build this past Saturday, June...
File Operations Monitoring With IBM Spectrum Scale File Audit Logging
With the release of Spectrum Scale 5.0, IBM is now offering File Audit Logging capability. Spectrum Scale File Audit...
ATS Group, Galileo & IBM: Empowering Optimal IT Infrastructures Together
For years, IBM has been a leading choice for technology solutions within the enterprise industry and beyond. This staple...
See What's Happening in Hollywood at the IBM Systems Technical University
IBM events offer a variety of ways to learn, grow, and connect. As an IBM Gold Business Partner, you can always find the...
Bringing a Fresh Perspective to IT: The Women of Galileo Performance Explorer & the ATS Group
Here at the ATS Group and Galileo Performance Explorer, you don't need to look far to find women who are role models within...
The ATS Group is Hiring! Immediate Opening for a Junior Linux Administrator
The ATS Group is growing and has an immediate job opening for a motivated, enthusiastic Junior Linux Administrator. ATS...
The ATS Group Announces New Specialist Designation for IBM Storage Systems
Advanced Technology Services (ATS) Group is pleased to announce their recent achievement of IBM Specialist for Storage...
Implementation and Managed Services for IBM Spectrum Scale from The ATS Group
IBM Spectrum Scale, formerly GPFS, is a leading choice to enable high performance, large-scale workloads, both on-premise...
Join March Madness on March 29th with the Philadelphia IBM POWER Users Group
You are invited to join the ATS Group for the Philadelphia POWER Users Group's "March Madness" meeting. Learn from industry...
AWS Certifications Add Value for The ATS Group and Galileo Performance Explorer
Amazon Web Services has been the undisputed leader of the cloud market for years now, providing the support and backbone...
IBM Spectrum Protect and Suse Enterprise Storage 5
A Brief History... The ATS Group has long provided services around the IBM Spectrum Protect product. It has been a mature...
Automating IBM Spectrum Scale Cluster Builds in AWS
As an IBM premier business partner, we are always looking for creative ways to meet our customer’s needs. The demand for...
IBM Object Cloud Storage
IBM Cloud Object Storage is part of the IBM family of Storage and Software-Defined Infrastructure. IBM Cloud Object storage...
Rob Jackard of The ATS Group Recognized by IBM in their Latest Redbook
With Sr. Systems Engineer, Rob Jackard’s, extensive background and subject manner expertise, he’s often asked to...
Required Security Patch Causes Performance Slowdown in Intel CPUs
Releasing a security patch is common practice for top-tier technology providers, aimed at ensuring that their products and...
Spectrum Protect (TSM) User Group meets at ATS Group on Dec 12
Tuesday, December 12, 2017 12:00pm – 4:30pm Come join IBM for a Spectrum Protect product update and roadmap. Come learn...
Transparent Cloud Tiering with IBM Spectrum Scale
With the release of IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2.1, IBM is now offering a hybrid cloud solution to leverage object cloud storage...
HADOOP ON IBM POWER
Hadoop is undoubtedly the most popular Open Source software suite used to process big datasets using the MapReduce...
Joshua Kwedar of The ATS Group Named as a 2017 Fresh Face of IBM AIX by IBM Systems Magazine
Malvern, PA — The ATS Group announced today that IBM Systems Magazine, published by MSP TechMedia, has named Joshua Kwedar,...
IBM Spectrum Protect and Backing up to Object Storage in the Cloud
The ATS Group is a business partner specializing in the full IBM enterprise stack, and IBM Spectrum Protect in particular....
PLUG West Meets at ATS Group
Join us on Tuesday, July 17th for the PLUG West meeting! PLUG West is an extension of PLUG, the Philadelphia Linux Users...
ATS Group Ensures Streamlined Cloud Backups with IBM Spectrum Protect
IBM Spectrum Protect Case Study ATS Group discovered that IBM Spectrum Protect can support robust cloud backups, providing...
The ATS Group Builds with Habitat for Humanity Chester County
The ATS Group participated in our annual Habitat for Humanity of Chester County’s (HfHCC) build this past Saturday, June...