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Mainframe Security Risk and Compliance: CA Mainframe Security by CA
This Bloor research paper highlights the the mainframe computer, a cornerstone of IT that remains constant despite these changes. Clearly the world of IT has changed considerably over the past 25 years with the rise of distributed computing and the profound effect the internet and World Wide Web have had on the way that we communicate day by day. One cornerstone of IT...
Podcast: The Mainframe - Best Practices 2009 by CA
the evolution of hub and moderization of legacy mainframe applications. In this discussion, learn about the basic idea of real world effectiveness of mainframe consolidation to deliver the best TCO/ROI including:

  • Move Unix/Linux apps to the mainframe
  • Scaling via Virtual Machines
  • Save TCO by simplifying architecture and reducing risk
Best Practices for Mainframe 2009 by CA
of more than 20 applications onto the mainframe, global demand of business transactions in IT leading to long term cost structures and rapid changes in the environment. In this discussion, learn about the basic idea of real world effectiveness of mainframe consolidation to deliver the best TCO/ROI including:

  • Move Unix/Linux apps to the mainframe
  • Scaling via
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Optimizing Mainframe Success by Simplifying Ownership by CA
The mainframe offers value in today's enterprise computing environments, where growing workloads, constrained resources, regulatory imperatives and corporate "green" mandates are intensifying the pressure on IT organizations. As the industry's most experienced mainframe professionals approach retirement...
Bringing New Generations into the Mainframe Environment by CA
platforms and technologies, outsource mainframe operation and support, hire externally, and internally nurture a new mainframe generation. For many - perhaps most - organizations committed to using and controlling their own mainframes, the latter two choices combine ongoing productivity with challenges of younger workers replacing more senior employees...
Using Deduplication with Modern Mainframe Virtual Tape by Data Domain
This whitepaper describes how mainframe users can effectively switch from physical tape (or hybrid disk/tape) to a modern mainframe Virtual Tape solution with Data Domain deduplication storage. Mainframe IT managers have used physical tape for backup and recovery for decades. However, they no longer have to accept the limits that physical tape...
Getting the Most from System z: Redefining Mainframe Economics with the Specialty Engines by DataDirect Shadow
z, an insurer may be able to quickly cut down mainframe processing costs with little effort. For an insurer that already relies heavily on the System z in its infrastructure, some research into the specialty engines is definitely in order. Specialty engines are not guaranteed to reduce mainframe costs, but a host of vendor solutions in the marketplace exist to...
The Reality Facing the Mainframe World by Acxiom Corporation
The mainframe is alive and processing. As a mainframe executive, various solutions are available to help address your challenges and meet the needs of your business. You manage a mainframe environment that runs one or more of your business' mission critical applications. Things are good; security, performance and...
Meeting Performance Management Challenges with CA Mainframe Performance Management Suite by CA
practices. This paper outlines how CA Mainframe Performance Management Suite helps datacenter professionals maintain the high levels of performance enterprises expect from their mainframe environments. The new reality of mainframe systems, as an increasingly active participant in cross-platform business processes and services, creates new...
Mainframes are Still Mainstream by CA
Taking advantage of new capabilities in the mainframe market that proactively monitor and automate to maintain high availability, continuous operations and proactive problem management, will result in profitable business benefits. Organizations with significant processing requirements continue to maintain many of their most important applications on...
BMC Mainview: Controlling Mainframe Operating Costs While Maintaining Service Levels by BMC Software, Inc
are under pressure to control or reduce mainframe operating costs while maintaining service levels to the business. This paper describes how BMC® MAINVIEW® from BMC Software uniquely delivers aggressive and strategic performance management and optimization. Directors of IT operations are under pressure to control or reduce mainframe operating...
E-Guide: Mainframe Storage Overview by Data Domain
There are many advantages to using a mainframe to back up all of an organization's data to streamline backup and disaster recovery (DR) operations. This SearchStorage.co.UK E-Guide, sponsored by Data Domain, provides an overview of mainframe storage systems as well as using mainframes for data backup. There are many advantages to using a mainframe to back up all...
E-Guide: An Overview of Mainframe Storage by Data Domain
There are many advantages to using a mainframe to back up all of an organization's data to streamline backup and disaster recovery (DR) operations. This SearchStorage.com E-Guide, sponsored by Data Domain, provides an overview of mainframe storage systems as well as using mainframes for data backup. There are many advantages to using a mainframe to back up all of...
How to get mainframe MIPS under control: Tips for shrinking your mainframe processing costs by BMC Software, Inc
pros need to cut costs wherever possible, and the mainframe presents significant opportunities to do so. This expert podcast explains how to use specialty processors, load balancing, and compression database software for this task. Today's economic climate means that data center pros need to make the most of existing resources. In this podcast, industry expert Wayne...
Lowering Mainframe TCO Through zIIP Speciality Engine Exploitation by DataDirect Shadow
enablement strategy and significantly lower mainframe TCO by offloading up to 90% of your integration processing to zIIP specialty engines. DataDirect Shadow is a single unified-platform, built exclusively for integration with IBM System z mainframes. It uses patent-pending technology to deliver broad exploitation of zIIP engines and enabling customers to...
Datacenter Best Practices by Compuware Corporation
operations that involve the integration of mainframe, distributed and web-based systems - how Application Performance Management influences, and is influenced by, the generally more structured tools and processes available on the mainframe. From its roots as a mainframe performance discipline implemented throughout the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC...
SUN SPARC® ENTERPRISE! M4000, M5000, M8000, AND M9000 SERVER ARCHITECTURE by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
or vendor lock-in. In fact, these servers deliver a mainframe-class system architecture at open systems prices. With symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) scalability from one to 64 processors, memory subsystems as large as 2 TB, and high-throughput I/O architectures, Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000, M5000, M8000, and M9000 servers easily perform the heavy lifting required by...
Controlling Explosive New Workload Growth:Trends and Best Practices from the BMC 2008 Mainframe Survey Results by BMC Software, Inc
Join Bob Thomas (z/Journal), Mike Moser (BMC), and Neil Blagrave (BMC) as they discuss trends in new workload adoption and share ideas and best practices for getting the most value from resources while continuing to push out more new and varied processing! Mainframes are no longer the stodgy old legacy platform. The superior economics related to running...
BMC Enhances its Performance Assurance for Mainframes solution by BMC Software, Inc
This research brief examines the new release of the BMC Performance Assurance for Mainframes product. We assess its overall significance and describe the reaction of two early users. This research brief examines the new release of the BMC Performance Assurance for Mainframes product. We assess its overall significance and describe the...
BMC SQL Performance for DB2: Two Minute Explainer Video by BMC Software, Inc
MIPS and cost an organization thousands while mainframe application demand continually grows. Learn how BMC's SQL Performance solution for DB2 can reduce CPU MIPS, improve DB2 application performance, correct problems before they occur, and enable staff to work on more productive tasks. IT budgets don't have to be stretched so thin. By finding and flagging...
Case Study: Ingram Entertainment Implements Improved ROI and Reliability for Mainframe Data Protection by Data Domain
Ingram Entertainment Inc. is the leading national distributor of home entertainment products in the US. Having implemented the Data Domain and Luminex solution they have been able to successfully meet DR goals and achieve significant yearly cost savings. Ingram Entertainment Inc. is the leading national distributor of home entertainment...
Intel Itanium Processor Demo by Intel Corporation
44; including direct replacement for RISC and mainframe platforms. Itanium®-based servers deliver the scalable performance, reliability, and headroom for your most compute-intensive workloads, including direct replacement for RISC and mainframe platforms. Because Itanium processors are available in commercial off-the-shelf hardware from a...
The Five Myths of Storage Management for Distributed Systems and Mainframe Environments by Storage Decisions
In this presentation, Jon Toigo examines the five myths that have developed around contemporary storage management and outlines a service-oriented strategy for bringing storage under better control. With increasing pressure to do more with fewer staff, renewed focus has been placed on infrastructure manageability, especially storage...
ROI Case Study SPSS American Airlines by SPSS Inc. Worldwide Headquarters
deployed SPSS for Windows to replace its mainframe based analytics system, increasing productivity of its customer research team and improving decision making while reducing ongoing costs. In the intensively competitive world of air transportation, knowing what customers like and don't like, predicting how they will behave, and rapidly making decisions...
Is Network Service Impacting Your Users? by CA
Whether it's your applications, mainframe, client-server, distributed, grid or web services computing - none of it works without the network. Listen to this Podcast today to learn how to improve service by providing proactive service assurance to detect problems before they impact end users...
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Mainframe vulnerabilities: Be proactive rather than reactive by Robert Crawford, Contributor
pointed out, what we really need is a discussion of mainframe vulnerabilities and what various shops have done to avoid them. Therefore, I invite readers to add their own observations to this column.

User authentication
The mainframe seems to have a better handle on user authentication than other platforms. Whether a datacenter uses Top Secret or... More...

Mainframes playing catch up: Open source advantages surpass traditional programming by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
about how open-source applications integrate with mainframe technology. Contributor Wayne Kernochan shares his take on IBM's z10 release, and the company's support for open-source software.

For the last few years, the discussion of mainframes has been like Rick consoling his old lover in Casablanca by saying "We'll always have Paris." The discussion... More...

Stop server monitoring tools from crying wolf by Kyle Rankin, Contributor
If you don't count spam, I get more emails from computers than from people these days. Every server I am responsible for checks itself for health, and to ensure a second opinion, I have a central server that monitors the health of all of the machines on my network. Every blip, flap and crash is detected and I am alerted via email. Since all of these emails... More...
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HP's new server aims for cloud, Web 2.0 apps by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
of users, Martino said..

BigStockPhoto.com, a website that lets users upload and download photos, supports between 10 million and 20 million pages of content monthly. Its compute needs are less aggressive than the large scale-out companies HP targets with this system, but like the bigger Web 2.0 companies, BigStockPhoto is "growing constantly, so a... More...
Grow a green business: Cut costs and improve energy efficiency with green IT by Erin Kelly
the challenges businesses may face and offers energy-saving solutions. A free download of Chapter 1 of The Greening of IT, "The Importance of Green IT," is available for review.

Chapter 1 states many companies talk about reducing their total energy requirements, but are not actually going green where it counts. Why do you think this is true, and how can your... More...
IBM doubles refund for Sparc migrations: News in brief by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
could save about 4% on a server's power consumption.

The updates also include a way to download HP-UX from high-bandwidth replicated servers to reduce deployment time and allows users to update the operating system while still online, needing only a standard reboot to switch to the new version.

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