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T-shirt of the week: My first (run)time

You never forget your first love. For some of you old schoolers, it was bartered time on an AIX mainframe. For the younger crowd, it was 3.5-inch disk that carried 1.44 MB of possibility to your PC. But for many of us, it all began with a dog-eared floppy and...

Tags: Mainframes, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2008-08-01

Why are we ignoring Moore's Law?

In 1965, Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a chip would double every year. That was updated by Moore to two years and updated again by Intel to 18 months. According to Moore, this was a "lucky guess" based on just a few points of...

Tags: Gordon Moore, Law, Mark Burgess, Mainframes, Strategy, Servers, Hardware, Management, Tricia Liebert

Blog posts 2008-05-14

OpenSolaris coming to IBM's System Z mainframes

At the Gartner Data Center Conference, IBM demoed its System Z mainframe running on Sun Microsystems OpenSolaris. An excerpt from eWeek: David Boyes, president and chief technology officer of Sine Nomine Associates, an Ashburn, Va.-based consultancy that handled most of...

Tags: OpenSolaris, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Security monitoring product announced for Mainframe DB2

Database security firm Guardium and mainframe software firm Neon Enterprise Software have announced a new database security monitoring product designed for the DB2 mainframe database. The mainframe has traditionally been a black hole where security auditing is concerned.  This is especially so where the database is concerned. ...

Tags: Guardium, Security, Database, Mainframe, Security Monitoring, IBM DB2, Mainframes, Storage, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-10-10

New release of IBM's z/OS tightens the lid on mainframe security

It appears that IBM has just introduced a new release of its renowned z/OS mainframe operating system. Because of the mainframe's place in the heart of a vast portion of the world's financial services - as well as varied other large businesses, the focus this time round...

Tags: Security, IBM z/OS, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-08-21

"Big Iron" better than blade systems....

In a recent article on ITWorld Canada's site, they state that "People issues" tilt the evaluation of the hardware architecture in favour of mainframe systems.The example they use is a Privatised toll highway, with electrinoc tolls only, no toll booths.http://www.itworldcanada.com//Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-3ed0dc7f-cc4f-4d78-a992-353b563b4fc5Even though the mainframes are using the same processors, the blade...

Tags: blade, blade system, blades, Jaqui, Linux, mainframe, mainframes, servers, thin client, windows

Discussion threads 2005-12-18

Achieving Business Service Management Value Within Mainframe Environments

Mainframes continue to evolve to meet changing business needs. Today's mainframes host critical data, process critical transactions, and host many essential components of customer-facing, Web-based applications. Although no longer the single dominant platform, mainframes remain vital to one's business. The evolution of the mainframe from a single dominant platform to...

Tags: Information Technology, Business Service, Business Service Management, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2007-07-19

Real Firewalls, Virtual Networks: IBM System z Security

With IBM System z mainframes, server consolidation dramatically reduces costs associated with large server farms. Whether one deploys mainframes for this exciting new possibility, or simply to protect existing mainframe transactions, one system stands out as the most effective security option: StoneGate. Although external firewalls or Linux iptables could be...

Tags: Network, Stonesoft, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Firewalls, Network Security, Servers, Security, Hardware, Networking

White papers 2006-08-30

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

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Grid Failover Scenarios Version 1.1

The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. The capability to resume business operations in the event of a product or site failure is provided by the TS7700 Grid configuration. In...

Tags: Failover, IBM Corp., IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Mainframes, Storage Management, Utility Computing, It Services, Hardware, Servers, Storage

White papers 2008-04-01

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Encryption Overview Version 1.1

The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. Security of the information stored on the backstore tape cartridges has become important to many customers. The IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive...

Tags: Data Encryption, Encryption, IBM Corp., IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Mainframes, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Servers

White papers 2007-04-01

CenterPoint Energy Moves From IBM Tivoli to Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 for Monitoring

CenterPoint Energy needed an efficient way to monitor new Microsoft software it was rolling out on 261 server computers in 125 sites, while continuing to manage its IBM mainframe, UNIX, and other existing environments. The company wanted a solution that would integrate with the IBM Tivoli Enterprise software that monitored...

Tags: Software, Monitoring, Microsoft Operations Manager, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Thin Clients, Tools & Techniques, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Management

Case studies 2006-02-01

Insight and Outlook, Part 11: The Resurgence of the Mainframe - Reassess the Mainframe as the Center of Your Business Management System

IBM has seen growth in its System z mainframe business for six of the last nine quarters, according to IBM quarterly earnings statements. A curious, possibly surprising development, eh? Midsize UNIX boxes, grid computing schemes, and server farms made up of dozens of smaller systems seem to dominate today's IT...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Business Management, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Servers, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-03-25

Manufacturer Gains Confidence From Expert Guidance and Embraces IT Overhaul

Furniture manufacturer American of Martinsville relied on a 28-year-old mainframe system to run its business. The company needed a change but didn't know what was possible with new technologies. The company's executive team attended a Strategy Briefing at a Microsoft Technology Center MTC, which helped the group gain consensus about...

Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware

Case studies 2008-03-31

Brazilian Stock Exchange Ushers in New Era With SQL Server-Based Infrastructure

Starting in the late 1970s, the Brazilian São Paulo Stock Exchange BOVESPA ran its mission-critical applications on ever-larger, ever-more costly mainframe platforms. By the early 2000s, with daily trading volume growing by 50 percent each year, BOVESPA IT executives decided to evaluate their technology investments and infrastructure. Seeking a more...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Stock Exchange, BOVESPA IT, Mainframes, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

Case studies 2007-05-01

Balancing Site Goals and Service Goals in Datacenter Management

A shift is witnessed from large mainframe computing to commodity, off-the-shelf clusters of servers. The cluster paradigm allows organizations to acquire resources at a fine granularity, scaling the cluster to provide the resources necessary for increasingly-powerful simulations, multimedia rendering, and web farms. As yesterday's clusters grow into today's data centers,...

Tags: Datacenter Management, Data Center, Duke University, Data Centers, Mainframes, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2007-12-01

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series z/OS Host Command Line Request User's Guide Version 1.0

The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. Tape virtualization subsystems have become an essential part of most mainframe customer's operations. The IBM TS7700 Virtualization Engine, with its virtual tape drives,...

Tags: IBM z/OS, IBM Corp., IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2007-08-01

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Statistical Data Format White Paper Version 1.1

The IBM TotalStorage 3494 Virtual Tape Server VTS revolutionized the way zSeries customers utilized their tape resources. To help the customer monitor the performance of the VTS various statistics were developed. These statistics appeared in two forms, hourly records sent to the hosts known as SMF94 records and periodic real-time...

Tags: Statistics, IBM Corp., Utility Computing, Mainframes, Storage Management, Channel Management, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Marketing

White papers 2007-01-01

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Bulk Volume Information Retrieval Function User's Guide Version 1.3

The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of tape virtualization products that has revolutionized the way mainframe customers utilize their tape resources. As the capability of tape virtualization has grown, so has the need to efficiently manage the large number of logical volumes the system...

Tags: Information Retrieval, IBM Corp., IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2007-08-01

A Perspective on the Transformation of zSeries to Support New Workloads

In days of yore, the mainframe focused on enterprise-wide business transactions and long running batch processing. Because these critical business applications required rapid access to data, the mainframe became the natural home for corporate information. In parallel, distributed systems were employed to provide flexibility at the organization level. The personal...

Tags: IBM zSeries, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2007-01-25