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Using Deduplication with Modern Mainframe Virtual Tape by Data Domain
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 technologies impose on local backups and remote disaster recovery.

This white paper analyzes...
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...
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...
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...
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
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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...
Joachim: Benefit of server refresh Data Center by Intel Corporation
friendly fashion is paramount in the modern data center. There is a great deal of difference in those respects between older servers and the latest and greatest models available today. View this webcast and see performance comparisons of older equipment vs. today and learn how an investment in new data center equipment can save give you a return on...
The Business Case for Migrating from SPARC to HP: Infrastructure silos, such as SPARC, are an unnecessary IT burden by Hewlett-Packard Company
mainstream. The success of IT in supporting modern business has created unparalleled demand for quality, just-in-time IT services. Whether it's blog support, mobile email, or the inventory forecast, it has to be fast, cheap, and available 24/7.

In response, IT has rolled out successive layers of technology: enterprise applications, collaboration and messaging, web...
Sun's Open Network System for Web: Accelerating application performance and cost efficiency by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
cannot address the myriad challenges facing modern datacenters - with escalating server, storage, and switch sprawl that adds complexity, cost, and heat. More than just a fast server, datacenters need innovative technology solutions that directly address their most important challenges.

Those deploying enterprise Web infrastructure in particular need...
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...
Top Five Strategies for Combating Modern Threats - Is Anti-virus Dead? by Sophos Inc.
to learn about the security implications of modern threats, where emerging technologies can add real value, and five key strategies for ensuring solid malware protection. The corporate IT environment has changed irrevocably over the last few years. Threats are no longer high-profile viruses that spread themselves obviously to millions of internet...
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...
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...
BPM Technology Taxonomy: A Guided Tour to the Application of BPM by SAP America Inc
array of technology that is related to BPM. As the modern enterprise grows in complexity and scope, managers have struggled to keep pace. The value-creating processes inside companies are more complex. More and more activities happen outside companies in extended business networks. Demands for increased compliance and better financial returns seem only to...
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Essential tools for mainframe operation and management by Robert Crawford, Contributor
If you've been in the mainframe business for long enough you have a set of favorite tools to help you work better, faster and hopefully smarter. Here's a list of my favorites.

Cut and paste
This may sound silly, but those of us who started with dumb terminals back in the 1980s remember that looking for a dataset used to work like... More...

Data center cooling optimization in the virtualized-server world by Julius Neudorfer
can have more processing power than an entire midsize mainframe of 10 years ago. However, "virtualization" has not repealed the laws of physics, the hardware is very real, and it requires a lot of energy and cooling resources.

The plain truth about all computers is that they turn every Watt (W) of power directly into heat (and, yes, I know that they also do useful... 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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Dell launches Energy Star PowerEdge servers: News in brief by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
platforms under the server specification.

In addition, Dell chose the default power management settings to meet the EPA's requirements for Energy Star compliance for OptiPlex platforms, which have been available since 2003. The Round Rock, Texas-based vendor also reduced the amount of time required by the EPA for Energy Star compliance from 30 minutes of... More...

With frenzied IT vendor M&A, IT must weigh options by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
was the best," he said.

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HP launches new telco servers, storage: News in brief by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Technologies shows the benefits of using blanking panels in data center airflow management.

The study, paid for by Upsite but conducted by an unnamed third party, found that using Upsite's blanking panels -- which fill in empty rack slots -- essentially saved the data center 7 degrees Fahrenheit at the server intakes. That would enable data center managers to... More...