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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Mainframe vulnerabilities: Be proactive rather than reactive
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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...
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Mainframes playing catch up: Open source advantages surpass traditional programming
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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...
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Stop server monitoring tools from crying wolf
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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...
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HP's new server aims for cloud, Web 2.0 apps
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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...
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Grow a green business: Cut costs and improve energy efficiency with green IT
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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...
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