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US House kills mainframe for $750K
The US is facing multi-trillion-dollar deficits for years to come. A dysfunctional Congress can’t pass even the simplest of legislation without tacking on millions of dollars in earmarks. Yet, the...
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Mainframe modernization as the latest rage
With the economy beginning to improve, companies are crawling out of their bunkers and realizing they need new capabilities to compete in the post-recession world. Suddenly mainframe modernization is a...
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Bye Bye zPrime on System z
Just before court action in Texas was scheduled to ramp up, Neon gave up the battle for zPrime. It issued the following statement May 31: NEON zPrime to be withdrawn AUSTIN, Texas – May 31, 2011 –...
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IBM vs. Oracle HP Itanium
It was mind boggling enough when Oracle bought Sun Microsystems in April 2009, ostensibly to create “the only company that can engineer an integrated system – applications to disk – where all the...
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New Workloads for the zEnterprise
Even before the introduction of the z196 a year ago, IBM had been steadily promoting new mainframe workloads. With the introduction of the zEnterprise, consisting of a z196 and an attached zBX, the...
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IBM System z for Social Business
Most IT people do not think of the System z for social business. Probably they think more in terms of x86 systems running Linux or Windows. Some might think Power Systems and AIX. The System z,...
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Workload-Driven zEnterprise Solution Edition Program
The IBM Solution Edition (SE) program for the zEnterprise is one of the few true bargains in mainframe computing. It delivers a zEnterprise mainframe as a bundle with software, middleware, and...
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zEnterprise/zBX for VDI Scalability
Desktop virtualization, referred to as Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI), has long held great promise, and for specialized situations it has delivered big. For general enterprise desktop computing the...
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Addressing zBX Concerns
DancingDinosaur has been looking into user interest in the zBX almost since its introduction well over a year ago. Over that time adoption has grown from an initial handful to more than 125 devices...
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Lessons from IBM Eagle- zEnterprise TCO Analyses
Lessons from IBM Eagle-IBM Systems z TCO Analyses A company running an obsolete z890 2-way machine with what amounted to 0.88 processors (332 MIPS) planned a migration to a distributed system...
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IBM Points System z Further into the Cloud with CSL
With the announcement of its plans to acquire CSL International as a strategic addition to its System z portfolio IBM is underscoring its intention to move the z even closer to the cloud, if that is...
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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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