mainframe

IBM's next-generation mainframe: the z10

videonet — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:30:56 -0500

On Tuesday IBM announced its next generation mainframe. Called System z10 it features quad-core processors and is aimed at computing-intensive tasks and increasing data center efficiency.

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4 things you should know about mainframes and SOA

Layer 8 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:18:24 -0500

IBM user group executives from Share were out this week drumming up interest for their upcoming meeting in Orlando, Fla., but also playing up some of the more important aspects of the group's recently released study of its members' mainframe trends and directions.

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How the mighty mainframe has morphed into 2008

Layer 8 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:09:16 -0500

Here it is 2008 and we have some very interesting facts about the Big Iron chugging away in many corporate businesses. First and foremost, while tons of corporate date resides on a mainframe, it is largely locked there and a huge data integration effort will be required to unlock it. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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How to really bury a mainframe

Layer 8 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:50:49 -0500

Some users have gone to great lengths to dispose of their mainframe but few have gone this far. On November 21, 2007, the University of Manitoba said goodbye to its beloved 47-year-old IBM 650 mainframe Betelgeuse by holding a New Orleans style jazz funeral.

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According to the Web site devoted to the funeral:

IBM Gas Gauge lets mainframe customers see energy use in real time

Layer 8 — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:47:27 -0400

Big Blue this week launched a program that lets mainframe customers monitor energy use in real time. IBM’s metering system works by grabbing energy and cooling statistic from internal sensors that are now standard equipment in the company’s System z9 mainframes. The stats are shown real time on the System Activity Display.

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Open source and server virtualization lead state data center consolidation moves

Layer 8 — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:58:51 -0400

The National Association of State CIOs today took a wide ranging measure of state data center consolidation activities and found many are now including server virtualization and open source as common uniting technologies

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IBM mainframe operating system to get huge security boost

Layer 8 — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:02:25 -0400

IBM tomorrow is expected to roll out a new version of its z/OS mainframe operating system that features a huge swig of security enhancements. These enhancements include: · Improved network security policy management – making it easier to set network security policy across multiple instances of z/OS mainframe operating systems.

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The mainframe lives!

Layer 8 — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:17:10 -0400

If you believe the stories, IBM's mainframe has in the last 10 years been knocked down and gotten back up more times than most of the characters in all the Terminator, Die Hard and Rocky movies combined. And while there are some out there who'd like to see its demise, a true threat to the Big Iron has never really amounted to much. Even today, the proponents of commodity boxes offering less expensive x86/x64 or RISC technologies say the mainframe is doomed.

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