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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 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]
'Affordable' mainframe on offer for £56,000
News IBM is attempting to boost the mainframe's appeal in markets like healthcare and in developing countries, especially China, with the System z9 Business Class (BC) mainframe. The company is aiming to capitalise on the growing demand for secure...
[April 28, 2006, 15:30]
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]
AmerenUE Sees Mainframe-Level Reliability, Saves $1 Million, With Move to Windows
White Papers The IBM OS390 mainframe was running fine at AmerenUE's Callaway nuclear power plant - but executives sensed that the inflexibility of mainframe technology would position them poorly for the future. So they migrated and consolidated 50 mainframe...
[February 20, 2008, 0:02]
Linux on mainframe sparks reanimation
Talkback The definition of "mainframe" is already obscure, and in contrast with that, more IT managers became admiring IBM's mainframe. It seems that this dinosaur stopped fading away, and now on its way to be new religious symbol.
[August 11, 2004, 21:27]
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]
Why the IBM Mainframe Is an Effective Choice for Banks
White Papers The mainframe can be a key component of Core Banking System transformation. By mainframe, we are referring to the IBM System z9 and eServer zSeries. Retail banks around the world are faced with a growing set of challenges.
[July 9, 2007, 22:21]
First Foster server makes mainframe features mainstream
News The x360 has several firsts for Intel-based servers that bring mainframe-like features to the high-volume Intel server market. In common with most of its server announcements, IBM stressed the cross-fertilisation between its mainframe, mid-range...
[November 29, 2001, 16:24]
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]
Regional Hospital Avoids Disaster by Virtualizing Mainframe Gateways
White Papers Denver Health uses a mainframe application to track nearly every aspect of patient health care, from hospital records to billing information. Connections to the mainframe are routed over SNA (Systems Network Architecture) gateways in the data center.
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
IT Analysis - HP's Mainframe Alternative Program
White Papers The message was pretty clear: that HP is placing a high importance on blade architecture for hardware; that it wishes to dominate the storage market; that it places a relatively high importance on a "Green" message; and that it expects significant...
[March 1, 2009, 0:24]
IBM adds to mainframe's Java flavour
News IBM is bringing more of its WebSphere middleware suite to the mainframe, part of ongoing investments to keep the venerable server modern and cost-effective. The company on Monday said more components of its WebSphere line of Java server software...
[May 8, 2006, 17:00]
Turning Financial Mainframe Applications Into SOA Building Blocks
White Papers Financial transactions worldwide are processed by IBM mainframes running CICS (Customer Information Control System) applications, and insurance companies continue to rely on tailor-made, COBOL-written IBM mainframe applications to support their...
[March 29, 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]
