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Study Anticipates Increasing Use of Linux on Mainframes
in HackITLinux, on June 21, 2009
...and executed by TheInfoPro ) has found that large enterprises are increasingly deploying Linux on mainframes to maximize value and minimize costs.
"Linux on the mainframe is clearly a very att...
The importance of corporate DNA
in The CIO Weblog, on March 30, 2009
...or shift in IT delivery platforms. Microsoft was built around the last such significant shift, from mainframe-centric to PC-centric delivery, in no small part because they dedicated themselves to the ...
Private Student Loans Network
in Wangtam, on 2009-03-25
...s you nearly had
• Microsoft's Mainframe Obsession
• Relational Data Modeling in Zoho Reports
• Online Calendar and Appointment Management Solution - Setster
• Online Tutoring, Homework he...
Viewing new technologies through old prisms
in The CIO Weblog, on February 19, 2009
... is cyclical, and at a certain level I think most people would certainly agree with me. You look at mainframe timesharing, you look at desktop PCs, you look at terminal services, you look at laptops, ...
Für einen Fensterplatz beim Aufschwung: Forum Schnittstelle Fassade
in Fachplaner-Weblog, on 17.02.09
© HamburgerJung Architekten, Fachplaner, Investoren, Generalbau-Unternehmer und Metallbauer finden ein lückenloses Kompetenzangebot rund um den Kernbereich Fenster und Fassade vor. Ziel ist, dem Sanierungsbedarf nachzukommen und deutlich zu machen, welches die zugkräftigsten Motive sind, die Sa...
Vorankündigung: Blackberry Curve 8900 bei Vodafone
in BlackBerry World, on 28.01.09
Das nenne ich mal eine Vorankündigung. Bei vodafone gibt es das grandiose Blackberry Curve 8900 und das auch schon ab Februar. Das Herzstück dieses Geräts ist dabei der Bildschirm bzw. Touchscreen. Eine Auflösung von 480 x 360 Pixel sorgt dafür, dass selbst das Videogucken Spaß macht - von ...
Keeping your COBOL?
in The CIO Weblog, on August 8, 2008
...sd
The last time that COBOL (that's COmmon Business Oriented Language, A 1950's era mainframe programming language) got this much press was just prior to Y2K, when the effort to purge l...
Who says SaaS is hard?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 31, 2008
...sing environments have become more complex. It was quite a job to move accounting of the corporate mainframe back in the eighties to client/server based systems; it's a hundred times more difficul...
Does poor security lead to innovation?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 3, 2008
That's an over-simplification of the argument, of course, as all title lines are, but when you get right down to it, that's the implication of Jonathan Zittrain's concept of "generative systems," the open and unobstructed tools on which he lays the credit for the creation c...
Mainframes FTW on TCO?
in The CIO Weblog, on June 20, 2008
...sy of iStockphoto, Image# 5922273
So says Jim Porell of IBM in this ITBusinessEdge interview.
Mainframes are so off the radar of the average IT department these days, and thus of the industry as...
The Dawn of the Apple office
in The CIO Weblog, on May 5, 2008
... the ways that PCs originally entered corporate America... individuals and departments circumvented Mainframe IT to bring in desktops which could cheaply and easily accomplish their work faster and wi...
Windows: Dying or just chronically diseased?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 16, 2008
...e forefront of the PC market, but even the PC revolution didn't really knock IBM's existing mainframe and mini-computer business out of existence. Most of the organizations that were using the...
NO ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition!
in The CIO Weblog, on April 4, 2008
...e IT support further up the chain. This isn't necessarily new or unique; after all, back in the mainframe days, there were even more layers of staff between the average user and the backend data s...
What do you look for in a CIO?
in The CIO Weblog, on March 14, 2008
Paul Murphy has been posting excerpts from his book in process, "The Board Member's IT Brief," regularly on his blog, and today's entry covers a subject near and dear to our hearts here: Hiring IT Management.
Paul's primary directive in this matter is to "pick someone w...
And on that subject...
in The CIO Weblog, on December 17, 2007
...sophy, but one might have cited similar numbers in the 1970s supporting the massive predominance of mainframe computing over the small, experimental clusters of personal computers , and we all k...
IBM's Blue Cloud
in The CIO Weblog, on November 19, 2007
...perations. It will be the first of the cloud offerings to support PowerPC architecture and System z mainframe systems.
Inevitably, Blue Cloud is being compared to Amazon's Web Services, but fro...
Life on East Asia's Party Circuit
in Hidden Travel Gems, on November 3, 2007
Karl Taro Greenfeld, now a well known journalist who (mis)spent his younger days on Asia's party circuit, claimed in his book Standard Deviations that there were a hundred thousand westerners who spent their time working a Asia's economic capitals and partying on "the circuit."
...
Unterwegs in den Ardennen
in Das Reise-Weblog, on 21.09.07
Eine wahrlich länderverbindende Region sind die ardennen, die sich zwischen Mosel und Maas erstrecken und sowohl auf belgischem, als auch auf französischem und luxemburgischen Staatsgebiet liegen. Geografisch betrachtet könnte man durchaus auch noch die Eifel dazuzählen, denn beide zählen zu den...
Who is afraid of the big, bad SaaS?
in The CIO Weblog, on September 5, 2007
...ntrol back in the hands of the users. This has been a back and forth battle since the PC pushed the mainframe off the pedestal of corporate information systems.
Murphy points out that SaaS and user-d...
Wipro's Acquisition of Infocrossing - Summary
in The CIO Weblog, on August 16, 2007
...in 900 workers in five U.S. data centers
This acquisition broadens Wipro's data centers and mainframe capabilities
Gives Wipro a uniquely positioning in the remote infrastructure managemen...
Green is hot - IBM's mainframes are green
in Tech Intelligence, on August 1, 2007
...money, and money will attract even more money.
IBM makes clever use of this by claiming their mainframes are greener than their servers. The interesting thing is that nobody tries to invent a ...
Operating Virtually
in On Storage, on June 16, 2007
... the technology is not new.
Virtualization and system partitioning have existed for decades aboard mainframe systems from IBM running OS/390, z/VM, and z/OS and, more recently, aboard IBM's iSeri...
Storage Savings for IBM Storage
in On Storage, on May 8, 2007
...If you're running an IBM mainframe, good news - you may be able to dramatically reduce the complexity and the cost of data center and disaster recovery solutions. Brocade, a provider of network st...
Computer Music
in Web 2.0, on April 9, 2007
Instead of posing here as you, my faithful readers expect from me, I have been doing something completely different. You might think it was the bank holiday that killed me, but it is something completely different that kept me from posting : Reason .
Reason ? What is reason ? Well, it's a b...
What are the Smaller Players doing in the IT Services Market
in The CIO Weblog, on March 23, 2007
...uilding a centre of excellence at the recently launched Chennai facility to acquire competencies in mainframe technology, mainly in the insurance vertical.
TVS Infotech:
TVS Infotech, the IT...
Rightnow kratzt am Stuhl von SAP und Oracle
in Das B2B-Marketing-Blog, on 28.02.07
Heute habe ich einen Artikel in der Computerzeitung gefunden. Hier wird über das Unternehmen Rightnow vorgestellt, von dem ich bislang ehrlich gesagt noch nichts gehört habe.
Ein spannendes Unternehmen, dass B2B-Dienstleistern durch seine Kundenverwaltungssoftware Lösungen anbietet, e...
Christopher | Digital Listening Track des Tages 23.02
in Digital Listening, on 23.02.07
In der neuen Rubrik "Track des Tages" präsentieren Olli und ich jeweils einen unserer derzeitig favorisierten tunes .
System z
in HackITLinux, on January 3, 2007
...ications. Illuminata analyzed data provided by IBM to conclude that "IBM has demonstrated that mainframe total cost of ownership (TCO) advantages are 30% to 60% better than either 30 Sun Solaris ...
EDS & Oracle to mordenize Surveyor
in The CIO Weblog, on December 29, 2006
...t; said Tom Egan, Vice President of Service Delivery for EDS. "Modernizing the Surveyor mainframe application to a low cost, high performance agile platform will yield a quick, positive re...
Scotiabank Mexico Outsourced to IBM
in The CIO Weblog, on December 29, 2006
... Nova Scotia .
Under the deal, disclosed Wednesday, IBM will provide Scotiabank Mexico with mainframe computer and midrange server support, help desk services for 7,000 employees at 400 branch...
Quixtar implements components of the webMethods to improve supply chain agility
in Supplychainer, on November 23, 2006
...sult, the decision was made to shift the company's procurement and planning operations from its mainframe environment to its JD Edwards platform while also adding real-time integration of its exis...
SOA Enables German Fashion Company to improve supply chain performance
in Supplychainer, on October 31, 2006
...ay announced that implementing a services oriented architecture (SOA), based on IBM software and mainframe technologies, enabled Rudolf Wöhrl AG to reengineer its supply-chain processes. Designed by...
SAP in Banking
in The CIO Weblog, on October 25, 2006
... Financial Services, SAP AG.
Uladzimir Novik, deputy chairman of the board at the bank, said the mainframe-based SAP software is replacing several systems that had been deployed separately over the...
Bringing SOA Value Pattern to Life - Oracle
in The CIO Weblog, on September 25, 2006
...s identified are: - SOA-based Integration - Modern, Composite Application Development - Modernizing Mainframe and Legacy Applications
Across the three core SOA value patterns, customers realized or...
C&S Wholesale Grocers Deploys Retalix Solutions to Improve Supply Chain Management
in Supplychainer, on September 12, 2006
...f Retalix customers, including Bi Lo, Big Y, A&P and others.
Replacing several custom legacy mainframe applications, C&S is currently deploying Retalix supply chain management solution...
wxPython Cross Platform XP/Web Style Interfaces
in HackITLinux, on August 29, 2006
...aluating command url:",command
#else:
#self.base_OnLinkClicked(link)
class TryApp(wxApp):
mainframe =None
def OnInit(self):
self.mainframe = TryAppFrame(NULL, -1, "TRY 0.01b"...
IBM to bring SOA to Mainframes
in The CIO Weblog, on May 15, 2006
... The desire to access mainframe data and business logic has inspired many grand tech initiatives, including client-server, XML, and SOA. It's fair to say that most big, mature SOA implem...
Mainframes for the Mid Market - IBM
in The CIO Weblog, on May 1, 2006
... IBM plans to sell a lower-cost version of its z9 mainframe computer aimed at midsize businesses and emerging markets such as China.The System z9 Business Class mainframe will be priced from...
IBM Z9 Mainfame Computer
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 30, 2006
... IBM recently announced their new Z9 mainframe computer system they have designed for emerging markets. The systems is priced at about $100,000 USD. No word on when the Z9 will go on sale....
Novell and Virtualization
in Networking for Pros, on March 30, 2006
... back in style in a few years. One of
the concepts that has been around since the early days of IBM mainframe
computers is virtualization. The concept is making a comeback in a big
way with IBM and EM...
Innovation ..Enterprise Software - Part 1
in The CIO Weblog, on February 5, 2006
...traditionally seen its best years in the wake of major "platform" transitions, be it from mainframe to minicomputer, or client-server to n-tier. Each platform transition is typically accompa...
IBM Signs 10-Year Information Technology Agreement with Gap Inc.
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on January 21, 2006
...1 billion outsourcing contract with Gap Inc.
Under the agreement, IBM will provide Gap Inc. with mainframe , server, network, helpdesk and deskside support services across its North American ...
Spanish Bank - EDS Deal - $ 240 M
in The CIO Weblog, on December 27, 2005
...Caixa's contact center, which supports the bank's branches. In addition, EDS will integrate mainframe, midrange and network operations. La Caixa runs 4,800 branches and 7,000 automated teller ...
Hannaford Brothers Co. Drives Supply Chain Excellence With IBM System z9 Mainframe Running Linux
in Supplychainer, on December 7, 2005
... IBM today announced that Hannaford Brothers Company tapped the new IBM System z9 mainframe as the hub of its on-demand supply chain for more than 300 retail stores and five major distribution c...
5 Issues Challenging Every CIO
in The CIO Weblog, on September 24, 2005
...s. The hospitality enterprise is currently in the midst of a major transformation away from its IBM mainframe to a distributed, Java-based J2EE environment, taking its legacy application base to Java ...
Renault Signs IT Outsourcing Deals
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 13, 2005
...uter Sciences will conduct infrastructure management services. (This includes network, midrange and mainframe support to Renault sites in France and Spain.) And Hewlett-Packard will handle day-to-day ...
Liquid Cooled G5
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 10, 2004
...ng back to ye olde maine-frame days of water cooled systems. I have markedly unfond memories of the mainframe at a former employer leaking...
Pity really, I don't see why Apple feel they h...
how revolutions shape the market
in TJ's Weblog, on May 14, 2004
...Futurist Paul Saffo in an interview with BusinessWeek :
"The media expression of the mainframe in the '60s was e-mail in 1969, but it didn't mature until it migrated to client-server c...