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New zEnterprise Business Class Entry Model—zBC12
IBM introduced its new zEnterprise Business Class machine, the equivalent of the z114 for the zEC12, the zEnterprise BC12 (zBC12). It offers significantly more power than its predecessor but the...
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Goodbye Itanium, zEnterprise Continues to Grow
The HP announcement earlier this week wasn’t specifically the death knell for Itanium-based systems, but it just as well might have been. Rather, HP disclosed plans to extend the HP NonStop...
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Latest in System z Software Pricing—Value Unit Edition
Some question how sensitive IBM is to System z costs and pricing. Those that attended any of David Chase’s several briefings on System z software pricing at Enterprise 2013 this past October, however...
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2014 to be Landmark Year for the Mainframe
The official announcement is still a few weeks away and the big event won’t take place until April, but the Internet is full of items about the 50th anniversary of the mainframe. Check some out here,...
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How the 50 Year-Old Mainframe Remains Relevant The mainframe turns 50 years old this year and the many pundits and experts who predicted it would be long gone by now must be scratching their heads....
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Best System z TCO in Cloud and Virtualization
IBM recently analyzed various likely customer workload scenarios and found that the System z as an enterprise Linux server could consistently beat x86 machines in terms of TCO. The analysis, which...
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Expanding Mainframe Linux and Cloud Computing
In case you wondered if IBM is seriously committed to both mainframe Linux and cloud computing on the System z platform you need only look at the June 2 announcement that the company is opening the...
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Compuware Aims for Mainframe Literacy in CIOs
Many IT professionals, especially younger ones, are clueless about the mainframe. Chris O’Malley, president of the mainframe business at Compuware, has met CIOs who are versed in everything about IT...
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IBM Ends 2014 with Flurry of Outsourcing, Cloud Activity
Happy New Year. There is much to look forward to in 2015. At the least it probably is time for IBM to rev the System z. The zEnterprise EC12 was introduced in Aug. 2012. You should expect a new machine...
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IBM z Systems as a Cloud Platform
DancingDinosaur wrote a long paper for an audience of x86 users. The premise of the paper: the z Systems in many cases could be a better and even lower cost alternative to x86 for a private or hybrid...
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