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A Pure Internet Architecture For EAS Applications Using Z900
White Papers The IBM® zSeries 900 and the new 100% pure Internet architecture for PeopleSoft applications together have created a powerful solution for the world’s largest and most demanding customers. Without PeopleSoft code required on the client, customers...
[January 7, 2004, 2:38]
IBM Upgrades Mainframe OS
News IBM on Monday will release z/OS, its z900 mainframe operating system upgraded to take advantage of the new model's 64bit design. Z/OS is a major overhaul of the basic software that runs the mainframe, a traditional computing design with a decades...
[March 26, 2001, 9:07]
E-Commerce Patterns For Z/Linux Using WebSphere Commerce Suite V5.1 Patterns For E-Business Series
White Papers This paper discusses the installation, configuration and customization of IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite Pro Edition for Linux for eServer z900 and S/390. It is intended both for technicians who need to install and administer Commerce Suite, and for...
[September 28, 2004, 3:00]
IBM's T-Rex Mainframe Set To Roar
News IBM will announce its next-generation mainframe on Tuesday, sources said. The system, called the z990 and code-named T-Rex, will spearhead Big Blue's effort to ensure the lineage isn't doomed to extinction.
[May 12, 2003, 9:36]
IBM And SAP Back Linux On Mainframe
News IBM and corporate software powerhouse SAP have made plans to bring SAP's software to Big Blue mainframes running Linux. The companies plan to announce the deal Thursday at the CeBIT trade show here, where SAP is headquartered.
[March 22, 2001, 10:46]
IBM Unmuzzles Low-end 'Raptor' Mainframe
News IBM's latest mainframe is available with the option of a cut-down operating system that only runs newer software, and does not run traditional mainframe software such as CICS transaction processing. This gives IBM a cheaper mainframe to sell to new...
[February 18, 2002, 9:19]
Linux On Mainframes: Phase Two
News Out with the new, in with the old. In an inversion of the usually cutting-edge world of Linux, many of the announcements coming out of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo this week will have a retro flavour, as companies that specialise in software...
[January 28, 2002, 12:55]
WinTel Server 10 Times Less Expensive To Operate Than Linux Mainframe Benchmark Study
White Papers For the past several years, IBM has positioned its z900 mainframe as a superior platform for consolidation of Windows® servers, especially for file serving and web serving. However, IBM has provided no data based on standard, cross-platform...
[July 20, 2007, 4:21]
IBM EServer ZSeries: Designed For On Demand Solutions
White Papers More and more businesses are turning - or returning - to mainframe servers power their on demand data centers. Why? Because they can provide the right foundation for the business, helping them adapt to an increasingly complex world while embracing...
[August 31, 2007, 1:00]
WebSphere Portal Enable For Z/OS
White Papers There are many factors that influence the performance of WebSphere Portal in the z/OS environment. The objective of this performance study was to determine which tuning parameters and WebSphere Portal workload characteristics relate to performance.
[April 30, 2008, 1:02]
MSDN Support WebCast: Network Infrastructure Consolidation With Microsoft Host Integration Server 2004
White Papers Microsoft Host Integration Server (HIS) 2004 offers a number of technologies to integrate open Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) networks.
[February 28, 2008, 0:01]
Luxembourg Elects Responsive, Resilient Infrastructure To Support E-Government
White Papers Luxembourg divides its national IT infrastructure into four major computing centers: one for statistics, one for police work, one for social security and a fourth - CIE - for all other government ministries.
[October 25, 2004, 3:00]
Sendmail Builds An Email Infrastructure Fit For A Global Airline
White Papers A global airline headquartered in Asia was experiencing communications bottlenecks that overloaded its email system and impaired its response time to critical information. The major carrier experienced exponential growth in the number of its email...
[May 2, 2004, 0:00]
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]
Microsoft Touts Linux 'facts'
Talkback Wintel versus Mainframe? Of course it'll cost less. When you're dropping a million on new mainframe hardware (ram, drives, virtualization software), no amount of Windows licenses & MCSE's can overcome that kind of cost on a single, dual processor...
[January 7, 2004, 15:53]
Advertising Watchdog Reprimands Microsoft Over 'facts'
News Microsoft recently launched a 'Get the Facts' ad campaign telling consumers Linux isn't cheaper than Windows. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) thinks they should get the facts too -- but it's warned Microsoft to make sure its are straight...
[August 25, 2004, 16:25]
South American Bank Switches To Linux
News Venezuela's Banco Mercantil has become one of the world's first major financial institutions to port its back-end infrastructure to Linux, the open source operating operating system that is built by volunteer programmers around the world...
[May 3, 2001, 16:06]
IBM Hits Mark In Gloomy Week For Techs
News IBM on Wednesday gave Wall Street some desperately needed good news, meeting first-quarter expectations. The company earned $1.75bn, or 98 cents a share, compared with $1.52bn and 83 cents per share in the same period a year earlier.
[April 19, 2001, 11:35]
Palmisano: Big Blue Means Business
News Sam Palmisano means business about e-business. IBM's president and chief operating officer -- and the heir apparent to chief executive Lou Gerstner -- is one of IBM's biggest Linux advocates, placing the alternative flavour of the Unix operating...
[December 18, 2000, 9:02]
Linux Takes To The Sky
News Korean Air said last week that it has moved its flight crew scheduling and daily revenue accounting systems to Linux running on an IBM mainframe at its Seoul headquarters. The 3,000 pilots and flight crew members will query the mainframe system to...
[July 24, 2001, 12:28]
