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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...
Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling by BMC Software, Inc
Gartner has positioned BMC CONTROL-M in the Leaders Quadrant of their “2009 Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling”. The report assesses the ability to execute and completeness of vision of key vendors in the marketplace. Read a full copy today, courtesy of BMC Software. Gartner has positioned BMC CONTROL-M in the Leaders Quadrant of their “2009...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
...
BMC Database Administration Solution for DB2 z/OS by BMC Software, Inc
BMC provides a set of tools and utilities that are designed to automate the complex processes involved in updating and managing DB2 environments with the aim of being easy to use, and fast and effective in their execution. BMC provides a set of tools and utilities that are designed to automate the complex processes involved in updating and...
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...
Driving Datacenter Efficiency Through Server and Application Consolidation by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Because business processes are increasingly dependent upon an ever-expanding applications and technology network, many IT managers are seeking a more reasonable IT infrastructure strategy. This paper details several approaches to that end. The massive expansion of compute infrastructure over the last few decades have left many...
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...
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...
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...
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CMDB pitfalls in the current IT environment by Jasmine Noel, Contributor
they really want access to information to do their jobs on their terms. Delivering access to information requires understanding what people look up, what level of detail they need, when they do it, what info they need to share, and what they need to hand-off to other people in the process. It also requires standard interfaces that get people started... More...
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...

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CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
experienced IT staff, to create greater uniformity among products, and to provide a service to remove mainframe burdens.

Rich Ptak, an analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associates, believes that CA's initiative is a good idea.

"It's a step in the right direction," Ptak said. "CA is in competition with mainframe-focused tools from BMC and IBM. They're all working hard to make... More...

TPC eyes energy consumption and virtualization benchmarks by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
systems are idle."

TPC will also offer new ETL (extraction/transformation/loading and service-oriented architecture (SOA) measurements. Further, the organization plans to offer a series of workshops on using performance benchmarks to make server hardware and software buying decisions. The workshops will be held in various locations throughout the U.S., and... More...

HP announces Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Capping, HP also announced the following:

Energy-efficiency analysis and design service, much of which is culled from the HP acquisition of EYP Mission Critical Facilities last year. A redesign of the ProLiant BL460c server blade so it uses 44 fewer watts. A new HP 24,000W High Efficiency Hot-Plug Power Supply for its BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure, which HP... More...