Malvern, PA | March 25, 2019 – Advanced Technology Services (ATS) Group (developers of Galileo Performance Explorer) announced today that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named ATS Group to its 2019 Tech Elite 250 list. This annual list honors a select group...
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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 program as a direct result of both strategy and visionary alignment to IBM. Earning the highest tier...
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 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Pioneer 250 category. This annual list recognizes North...
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 advanced functionality, such as data replication, sub-volume tiering, or point-in-time copies, you need...
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 hybrid cloud market. IBM is buying open-source software developer Red Hat for $34 billion in a...
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 works with vendors, partners and clients to improve the content to meet the evolving needs of our 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 solutions can help an organization differentiate itself within the marketplace and provide the best experience possible, both internally for its staff...
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 months have seen at least one major initiative, be it the deployment of a new application or the...
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 offering in close partnership with Cobalt Iron, utilizing their industry leading Adaptive Data Protection...
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 your data? You need to train it and trust it — to make your business smart, but also secure. Welcome...
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, in just a 2U footprint. ATS Group had the opportunity to participate in the beta program for the...
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 and boosted reliance on the cloud, this infrastructure exodus makes perfect sense. That said, just...
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 organizations of all sizes. Our partnership with Zabbix enables us to execute projects of all sizes...
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 to pinpoint a root cause can be like feeling in the dark for a light switch. With employees and...
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 consistently providing top-notch performance. The need to implement emerging technologies, determine root...
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 continue to improve with each new generation, and POWER9 is no exception. The difference this time derives...
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 ATS Group at IBM Systems Technical Universities (#IBMTechU) events, and this October is no...
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 a close eye on demand, available resources and the ways in which these are utilized. Capacity...
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 7, 2018 | Today is a big day for IBM Power Systems. Our initial rollout of POWER9 servers is now...
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 factors when selecting a clustered file system for enterprise data storage. But as cloud-based systems...
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 the IBM FlashSystem family – IBM FlashSystem 9100. Even at first glance, it has already impressed...
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 orchestration platform that empowers developers with common services for self-service deployment,...
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 powerful, open source object-relational database system that uses and extends the SQL language combined...
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 everyone has a decent place to live.” Habitat for Humanity of Chester County's goals are summarized...
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 and puts them on a multi-node message queue from which they are consumed and written to a retention...
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 today's most advanced innovations, and here at Galileo, we're incredibly fortunate to have robust ties...
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 ATS Group at IBM Systems Technical Universities (#IBMTechU) events, and this October is no...
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, families and the tech industry overall. In fact, two of our very own - Vice President of Marketing, Kelly...
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 technical solutions and professional services. With a diverse team of industry-certified consultants, we...
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 Partner designation. IBM relies on their channel partners to deliver exceptional services and solutions,...
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 solution is increasingly implemented alongside IBM Elastic Storage to help ensure capital and...
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 colleagues and share lessons learned on Power technology. Thursday, March 29, 2018 9:00AM – 1:00 PM The ATS...
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 critical user services. Currently, Amazon holds a 62 percent share in the public cloud market,...
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 increasing in today’s “cloud first” climate. Many of our customers have invested a significant amount...
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 options – dedicated and private cloud or public and shared cloud, implemented within a region or...
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 the newly updated IBM Redbook publication that Rob collaborated on that describes the concepts,...
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 experience for users. However, when multiple patches are released over a short period of time, it can...
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 (Information Lifecycle Management) engine. As an IBM Business Partner, we’ve stood up several IBM Spectrum...
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 a Fresh Faces of IBM AIX honoree. An IBM Fresh Face is an up and coming IT professional working...
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 operating system and other Open Source software who live in the greater Philadelphia area and come...