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Employing Best Practices for Mainframe Tape Encryption by CA
Read this paper to learn best practices for mainframe tape encryption. Encryption for mainframe tapes has rapidly ascended to the top of the list of data center requirements due to increasing disclosures by high-profile organizations regarding the loss or theft of non-encrypted tapes containing sensitive personal and business-critical information...
The Four Security Risk Gaps of Mainframe Console Access -- And How To Close Them by I/O Concepts Inc.
s commitment to security includes all levels of mainframe access. For many years, the mainframe has been considered inherently secure-behind a locked door with restricted access. The realities of today's enterprise, with wide network access of mainframe resources, have exploded the foundations of this assumption, exposing the mainframe to a much wider field of threats...
Webcast - Closing the Four Security Risk Gaps of Mainframe Console Access by I/O Concepts Inc.
s commitment to security includes all levels of mainframe access. For many years, the mainframe has been considered inherently secure-behind a locked door with restricted access. The realities of today's enterprise, with wide network access of mainframe resources, have exploded the foundations of this assumption, exposing the mainframe to a much wider field of threats...
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...
Mainframe Performance Management: A New Twist by CA
Read this white paper featuring mainframe expert Wayne Kernochan to gain insight on insight on performance management software - specifically as it relates to the mainframe - and on why this technology is more important now than ever before. This white paper is based on a webcast with mainframe expert Wayne Kernochan. Read it for Kernochan's insight on...
A Leveraged Approach to Reducing IBM Mainframe Software Costs: Learn 3 Ways to Shrink Costs by over 70% by Infocrossing, A Wipro Company
44; as companies see the robust savings that a mainframe can deliver over distributed systems. But are they saving as much as they could? IBM's software pricing structure is complex to say the least, and it does not favor the Small-to-Medium Enterprise. This paper discovers the secret of leveraging the IT investment to gain the same savings that the big players...
Business Customers Find Mainframe Costs out of Step with Data Center Budgets by Hewlett-Packard Company
of in-depth knowledge and expertise in helping mainframe users move core applications that are critical to their business to the right HP environment. This enables customers to achieve significant cost savings that can then be allocated to other strategic, high-value IT projects. To help customers transition from mainframe computing environments, HP offers...
Mainframe performance management by CA
in the CMDB and how you can avoid them. Mainframe performance management is an increasingly important topic in IT, but many IT professionals don't have a clear idea of what it entails. Listen to this expert webcast for an overview on the basics of this topic and learn about common pitfalls in the CMDB and how you can avoid them.

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Expert Q&A: Mainframe performance by CA
in the CMDB and how you can avoid them. Mainframe performance management is an increasingly important topic in IT, but many IT professionals don't have a clear idea of what it entails. Listen to this expert podcast for an overview on the basics of this topic and learn about common pitfalls in the CMDB and how you can avoid them.

Learn about common pitfalls with your...
Improving Mainframe Batch Efficiency- Methods and Strategies by Software Engineering of America, Inc.
View this webcast today to understand the attributes of an effective batch processing environment and how you can incorporate them into your own data center without making changes to your legacy application programs. Your batch environment is costing you more than you think it is (or more than it should)! Most organizations struggle against a...
Mainframe Tape Technology: Eight Myths, Realities and Best Practices by CA
ll learn best practices to negate these common mainframe tape misconceptions:

  • Tape storage enables simple integration and management of multi-vendor technologies
  • Simple encryption of tape data addresses compliance, security, and risk drivers
  • Encryption key management provides no business value
  • And more!
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    Executive Summary: Storage Panorama by CA
    underutilized resources, particularly for non-mainframe systems, where storage management capabilities lack those of mainframe systems.

    Read this executive summary to learn more about what storage managers are keen on in the coming year and discover what the emerging storage technologies could be in the future...
    Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create a Greener Datacenter: Scale and save with Tape Technology Innovations by Sun StorageTek
    without disruption, and consolidate mainframe and open system operating environments. As data volumes grow and budgets continue to shrink, datacenter managers are looking for ways to scale storage infrastructure and reduce operating costs. Sun's latest tape drive and tape library solutions can help companies grow automated tape environments...
    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...
    Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create a Greener Datacenter: Scale and save with Tape Technology Innovation by Incentra Solutions
    without disruption, and consolidate mainframe and open system operating environments while minimizing power and operating costs. As data volumes grow and budgets continue to shrink, datacenter managers are looking for ways to scale storage infrastructure and reduce operating costs. Sun's latest tape drive and tape library solutions can help...
    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...
    Virtualization Defined - Eight Different Ways by F5 Networks
    virtualization has been around since the first mainframe systems. But recently, the term "virtualization" has become ubiquitous, representing any type of process obfuscation where a process is somehow removed from its physical operating environment. Because of this ambiguity, virtualization can almost be applied to any and all parts of an IT...
    Access Control in Virtual Environments by FoxT
    The growth in use of virtual servers is heralded by many as a positive development because it is seen to save companies money and resources. Recognizing the challenges of virtualization, FoxT is committed to extending the access control management and auditing benefits provided by BoKS Access Control for Servers to work on virtual platforms...
    Streamlining SAP Upgrades with VMware Infrastructure 3 by VMware, Inc.
    In this Webcast, speakers from VMware and SAPwill show you how VMware Infrastructure can help you upgrade your SAP applications and efficiently manage your SAP infrastructure. Upgrading SAP landscapes is a complex process that requires creating and maintaining new environments, software upgrades and extensive test cycles. VMware...
    Data Discovery and Risk in the Datacenter by Tizor
    fileservers, and legacy applications such as mainframe systems.

    Database auditing and monitoring helps assure core data by addressing four critically important data issues:

    • Data Discovery - Where is sensitive data stored in the data center?
    • Data Activity Monitoring - How, where, what, when, and by whom is data being accessed?
    • Data Risk Assessment - If
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    IBM System x Enterprise Servers in the New Enterprise Data Center by IBM and Intel
    the flexibility to grow with your needs. Proven mainframe-inspired technologies, combined with consolidation and advanced virtualization solutions that expand on demand, result in superior performance, high scalability, unmatched flexibility, and superior efficiency.

    See how virtualizing and consolidation on IBM System x™ and Intel systems can...
    The Ideal Blade Solution to Replace Your Rack Server: IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express Blade by IBM
    Read this article to learn how to simplify your traditional UNIX, IBM i and Linux rack-mount and tower setup with the IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express blade and BladeCenter S chassis. Discover how it delivers a complete integrated business system. Replace your rack server with the IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express blade.

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    Tape Encryption FAQ by Sony Electronics Inc.
    and the benefits it offers. Encryption for mainframe tapes has rapidly ascended to the top of the list of data center requirements due to increasing disclosures by high-profile organizations regarding the loss or theft of non-encrypted tapes containing sensitive personal and business-critical information. The urgency to encrypt sensitive data is further...
    The Five Essential Ingredients for Effective Event Correlation and Root Cause Analysis by CA
    This whitepaper discusses the five essential ingredients needed for effective event correlation and root cause analysis. These key ingredients are at the heart of delivering high service availability to support every kind of business The five essential ingredients for effective event correlation and root cause analysis are at the heart of...
    Profitably Improving Site Infrastructure Energy Efficiency by Upsite Technologies, Inc.
    Learn about the causes of energy overconsumption and how to improve your organization's overall energy efficiency, resulting in huge cost savings. One measurement of data center's site infrastructure energy efficiency is the ratio of all power consumed by all electrical and mechanical systems supporting the computer equipment load...
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    Implementing CICS managed data tables by Robert Crawford, Contributor
    I/O is the one you don't do." In tribute to this rule the mainframe has a rich history of I/O avoidance all the way from local shared resources (LSR) to control unit cache. CICS brings to the party several memory buffering techniques in the form of data tables, known as CICS managed data tables (CMDT).

    CMDT's are perhaps the simplest and easiest to maintain type of... More...

    Share conference special report fall 2007 by SearchDataCenter.com, Staff
    their fall meeting in San Diego, Calif., where a number of mainframe products and upgrades were announced. Get all the latest from the IBM mainframe frontlines in this special report.

    Preview: IBM user group Share
    Immediate past president Robert Rosen gave us a preview, which includes mainframe news, ITIL, distributed computing and more, prior to this year's... More...

    Risks and rewards of mainframe debugging with DFHTRAP by Robert Crawford, Contributor
    Mainframe shops may already be familiar with DFHTRAP. Sometimes, when IBM runs into a problem it can't debug by other means, they will send a usermod for module DFHTRAP and ask the systems programmer to use the obscure CSFE transaction to enable it. But, as I've recently discovered, in some specific... More...
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    After Transitive acquisition, will IBM shed translation software beneficial to competition? by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
    in the market have favored x86 systems, King said. "If IBM has customers on older Unix or mainframe systems that are transitioning off, they would probably be better off creating translation software of their own. But with Transitive, IBM has some tools on hand to help customers do that."

    And the acquisition could prove a major competitive advantage for IBM, said... More...

    CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
    At CA World 2008 in Las Vegas this week, software giantCA announced its Mainframe 2.0 iniative, which aims to untangle the complexity of mainframe management.

    Chris O'Malley, the head of CA's mainframe business unit, said Mainframe 2.0 strives to make its mainframe management software easier to use for less experienced IT staff, to create greater... More...

    Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
    Starting with the IBM z9 mainframe, and even more so with the z10 it introduced this year, IBM has promoted big iron as a server consolidation savior – in particular, for x86 Linux server consolidation.

    In the same vein, IBM has hardly been shy about supporting a Linux-only mainframe in which... More...