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Mainframe Rehosting With Oracle Tuxedo: Accelerating Cost Reduction and Application Modernization
White Papers Find out how mainframe rehosting lets IT professionals spend more time and money on development rather than on maintaining aging systems. This free whitepaper explains how you can unlock the value of key business logic for integration and reuse and...
[October 15, 2009, 9:11]
Bob Evans, mainframe pioneer, dies
News Bob Evans, an IBM computer scientist who helped to develop the modern mainframe computer, died on Thursday. In the 1960s, Evans led a team that developed a new class of mainframe computers called the System/360 or S/360, which allowed different...
[September 6, 2004, 8:45]
Sun SPARC Enterprise Server Family Architecture Flexible, Mainframe-Class Compute Power
White Papers In fact, Sun SPARC Enterprise servers deliver mainframe-class system architecture at open systems prices. Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are highly reliable, easy to manage, vertically-scalable systems with all of the benefits of traditional...
[May 11, 2007, 1:00]
MS, Amdahl to bind NT Server, mainframe know-how
News The firms said the alliance will let users more easily connect Windows NT Server and BackOffice applications with OS/390 mainframe platforms so that Windows-based client users users on a network can access host-based applications, data and...
[February 2, 1998, 15:20]
Mainframe-to-Windows Server Move Speeds Key Process 33 Percent at Southern Company
White Papers That process was managed by an aging mainframe that could no longer handle the increasing pace of new federal regulations and changing business needs. As a result, Southern Nuclear gains the flexibility to meet new regulations and requirements, has...
[August 13, 2007, 8:09]
Mainframe Reliability at Mainstream Prices
White Papers Dual-Core Itanium® 2-based solutions deliver mainframe-class reliability with unbeatable flexibility, mainstream prices and global industry support that RISC and mainframe architectures can’t match. As enterprises move toward real-time computing...
[January 25, 2007, 11:25]
Mainframe-to-Windows Move Speeds Agility Up to 300 Percent for Global Publisher
White Papers But it was still managing its order fulfillment and distribution processes on an aging mainframe that kept business processes slow, inflexible, and costly. So, the company ported its mainframe applications to Windows Server 2003 and the Microsoft...
[February 9, 2008, 0:17]
IBM updates mainframe security
News IBM claims it has improved the security of its z/OS mainframe operating system. Tivoli zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM, which was released on Friday, automates security administration and audit processes in virtual mainframe environments.
[August 20, 2007, 11:55]
Reuze simplifies move from mainframe to Windows
News Micro Focus on Wednesday launched a tool for migrating business processes from the mainframe to Windows, without having to rewrite applications. It is aimed at companies that primarily use Windows but still rely on some mainframe Cobol applications...
[July 16, 2009, 16:58]
The Mainframe as a first Class SOA Participant - Enhancing the Legacy Value Proposition With SOA
White Papers In this whitepaper, ZapThink analyst Jason Bloomberg explores how using DataDirect's Shadow can enable organisations to transform the mainframe into a first class citizen within a SOA. Today's business imperative for IT is to do more with less, and...
[March 6, 2007, 0:00]
IBM sells mainframe for grid research
News The University of Florida has bought a lower-end IBM z800 mainframe along with 32 Intel servers to investigate grid computing, a method of spreading calculations across groups of machines. IBM's mainframes have had this virtualisation feature for...
[March 6, 2003, 8:02]
IBM anti-trust probe proves the mainframe matters
Blog Every so often, a news story emerges -- usually after a quick blast of marketing and PR effort by IBM -- asserting that the mainframe is no longer dead. As IBM is now effectively the only purveyor of mainframe hardware, this can and often does...
[October 9, 2009, 12:03]
Unisys mainframe gets Web services, speed boost
News Unisys, one of the few companies remaining in the mainframe market, will begin selling a new high-end system on Monday that includes features to run advanced software. Big Blue's WebSphere software provides a mechanism to develop and run...
[July 28, 2003, 9:31]
Attack Of The 64-Chip Mainframe
Blog In Jurassic Park, that's the sign of an incoming Tyrannosaurus Rex: in enterprise IT, it's the seismic early warning of the return of the mainframe. If you look at the surface of your coffee as it sits quietly in its cup on the desk, you may spot...
[February 26, 2008, 11:13]
Managing System z Mainframe SOA Environments - Strong IBM z/OS SOA Software Advances Key
White Papers In parallel, the strong market resurgence of the IBM System z mainframe, powered by its continuing transformation, and deeply superior, business value-generating attributes, has continued apace, expanding its large footprints.
[April 28, 2007, 1:00]
Housing Firm Increases Sales and Efficiency With Move From Mainframe to Microsoft
White Papers Oakwood Worldwide, a leader in the corporate housing market, used HP 3000 mainframe-based systems for business functions such as managing reservations, sales opportunities, and housing services. However, the company's salesforce had difficulty...
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
IBM to upgrade mainframe features
News IBM will announce upgrades to its mainframe computer on Friday, refreshing a high-end server line many had given up as extinct. The upgrades improve some of the features of the z900 mainframe, introduced a year ago, though it leaves the heart of...
[October 19, 2001, 10:02]
Turkey's Garanti Bank Reduces Mainframe Loads Using SQL Server 2005 Solution
White Papers To reduce processing loads on its mainframe, Garanti has steadily improved existing internal applications and designed its new applications to run on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database software. Garanti Bank, one of the largest private banks in...
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
IBM announces integrated mainframe packages
News IBM on Friday announced a line-up of integrated mainframe, software and services packages designed for specific tasks such as datawarehousing, service-oriented architecture and transactions. IBM's System z is its bread-and-butter mainframe lineup.
[August 17, 2009, 9:31]
Migrating Mainframe Applications to Windows Server
White Papers This paper provides insight and clarity into the process of mainframe modernization, with a focus on application migration. It demonstrates how straightforward it can be to migrate applications from the mainframe to the Microsoft Windows Server...
[April 3, 2008, 1:02]
