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- Mainframe-to-Windows Migration Saves Frozen Food Producer More Than $1 Million
- The Schwan Food Company, one of the world's leading branded frozen food manufacturers, needed an alternative to a mainframe, which was complex, costly, and unable to support the company's aggressive growth. Its solution: migrate its custom business applications to the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system and the Microsoft .NET...
- Tags: Food, Microsoft Windows Server, Migration, Microsoft Corp., Mainframe-to-Windows Migration, Windows Server Solution, Mainframes, Food & Beverage, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Hardware, Manufacturing, Operating Systems, Software
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- Migrating Mainframe Applications to Windows Server
- This paper provides insight and clarity into the process of mainframe modernization, with a focus on application migration. It demonstrates how straightforward it can be to migrate applications from the mainframe to the Microsoft Windows Server operating system. Not every system will be this simple, but this study demonstrates the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2006-09-01
- TechNet Webcast: XFRAME: Powerful Tools for Legacy Modernization by HTWC (Level 200)
- Modernization of previous mainframe applications and data is a key strategic issue in today's corporate IT environment. This webcast presents an overview of XFRAME, a powerful mainframe migration and rehosting platform that enables companies to move mainframe workloads to the Windows Server platform. Rehosting with XFRAME is a cost-effective, highly...
- Tags: Webcast, Tool, Microsoft TechNet, XFRAME, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-04-24
- Property Firm Migrates From Mainframe to Windows, Cuts Costs 60 Percent, Ups Speed
- Stockholmshem, one of the largest residential management companies in Sweden, needed to replace a legacy mainframe that was costly and difficult to maintain. A move to UNIX was considered but rejected in favor of a migration to servers running the Microsoft Windows Server operating system to take advantage of the...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mainframes, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software
- Case studies 2006-07-14
- Move to Windows Eliminates $2.3 Million Mainframe Cost for Credit Union Network
- CO-OP Financial Services, the nation's largest credit union - owned electronic funds transfer network and processor, was spending U.S.$2.3 million per year to keep its shared branching transaction processing system on a Unisys mainframe. By moving the solution to a pair of computers running the Microsoft Windows Server operating system,...
- Tags: Network, Microsoft Corp., Mainframes, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies
- Company Moves From Mainframe to Microsoft, Schedules High Volume of Jobs Reliably
- Ancor Information Management, which offers marketing communications solutions for clients such as global automakers, was running its operations on both IBM mainframe and Microsoft Windows - based computers. In 2003, Ancor decided to move entirely to a network running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. As part of the migration, the...
- Tags: Job, Microsoft Corp., Ancor, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2006-04-20
- Best-of-Breed Mainframe SOA Tools: How to Evaluate the Best SOA Tools for Your Mainframe Environment
- In nowadays IT marketplace it is easy to think that mainframes are being marginalized more and more in companies across the world. Indeed, not so long ago the story was that the mainframe was the dinosaur, headed towards global extinction. This paper considers the topic of mainframe SOA, and identifies...
- Tags: SOA, Mainframes, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Servers, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-10-21
- Ideal Migration 2008 (zip)
- Ideal Migration manages the consolidation of your Windows NT, 2000, and 2003 domains and enables reliable migration to Windows 2000 and 2003. IDEAL Migration is an indispensable tool for reorganizing your I.T. system. Software and documentation are available in English, German, and French. Software's Features: Consolidation of Windows NT, 2000,...
- Tags: Migration, Pointdev, Ideal Migration, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-02-28
- Options for Integrating New Applications With Current Applications That Run on a Mainframe
- Senior developers, IT architects, and project managers frequently need to integrate existing mainframe applications with new applications that don't run necessarily run on the mainframe. Examples of mainframe applications include CICS and IMS transaction applications; modern applications include J2EE applications and some C++ applications. Modern applications would usually reside on...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-06
- Plug and Play Device Driver Migration in Windows Vista
- This paper provides preview information about Plug and Play driver migration and installation for in-place upgrades to the Windows Vista operating system. Developers, support staff, and manufacturers can use the information in this paper to better understand driver migration behavior and debugging techniques for Windows Vista. The paper includes an...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Device Driver, Migration, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2007-01-31
- AmerenUE Sees Mainframe-Level Reliability, Saves $1 Million, With Move to Windows
- The IBM OS390 mainframe was running fine at AmerenUE's Callaway nuclear power plant - but executives sensed that the inflexibility of mainframe technology would position them poorly for the future. So they migrated and consolidated 50 mainframe applications to an infrastructure based primarily on the Windows Server operating system, enabling...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., AmerenUE, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-04-01
- CA Mainframe Management Solution Sets
- The mainframe is increasingly important to businesses that require reliability, high end workload capacity along with flexibility. Today, the mainframe is used for a variety of purposes: transaction processing, data hosting, web-enabled applications, back-end servers, server consolidation and data centralization. The mainframe is arguably the single most successful business-computing platform...
- Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Set up multiple virtual machines in Windows 2003 Server
- IT Director of operationI planning Groupwise migration to exchange 2003 and looking the best possible migration tool.the migration include NDS to ADS.
- Tags: Set-up, windows, koware@..., hardware, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2003, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, server, virtual machine
- Discussion threads 2006-04-12
- Domain Migration Using the Microsoft Active Directory Migration Tool
- This session is an introduction to domain migration using the Microsoft Active Directory Migration Tool ADMT. It will cover the features, requirements, and configurations required to perform a domain migration from a Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 domain to another Windows 2000 domain using ADMT.
- Tags: Migration, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Domain Migration, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Microsoft Windows 2000, Directory Services, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software
- Webcasts
- Mainframe Modernization and Re-Hosting: Increasing IT's Business Impact Through Lower TCO and Greater Agility
- This paper explores the business drivers and key success factors for many of the migration projects. It also presents proven transformation architecture for re-hosting legacy applications and data, describes SOA integration options and considerations when SOA-enabling re-hosted applications, explains project methodology for risk mitigation and automated tools that support it,...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Information Technology, SOA, TCO, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mainframes, Roi/Tco, Web Services, Middleware, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Mainframe Modernization
- Four steps from mainframe to .NET This white paper shows how a structured, four-phase process helps companies move from legacy mainframe applications to a new agile IT environment built on Microsoft's .NET technology - one of the most flexible approaches available for any legacy modernisation project.
- Tags: Cognizant Technology Solutions, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2006-05-12
- Migrating to Windows 2000 or Windows XP with Altiris® Migration Suite™
- The Altiris Migration Suite™ helps to dramatically reduce the costs and headaches associated with a large-scale upgrade to Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Learn the six critical steps that IT organizations follow to successfully migrate to a new operating system, and how the Migration Suite effectively addresses each step.
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Altiris Inc., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2004-08-30
- Moving Mainframe Applications to Windows: Considering the Options to Preserve, Translate, or Rewrite
- The paper aims to raise awareness of the available software solutions that can be used to move mainframe language applications to the Windows operating system, and to indicate additional resources. It describes briefly the broader issues concerning modernizing mainframe applications and the options available, and it then explores three solutions...
- Tags: Mainframes, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Mainframe Alternatives: Why
- HP has helped mainframe users reduce costs and improve business agility. The presenter of this webcast identifies some key business problems that mainframe users face, and how HP can help solve them.
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Is nothing sacred anymore - a GUI on a mainframe?
- When you think about working on a mainframe, the last thing you think about is pointing and clicking with a mouse. As a matter of fact, I remember when I first sat in front of a mainframe in college, the professor told us how lucky we were because we got...
- Tags: mainframe
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
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