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Posted by Mike on Friday, September 3, 2010 - 23 views
IBM hopes to embrace and extend the cloud into its mainframe monopoly, and keep filing patents on the technology so as to make it an eternal lock on the top end of the business.
Posted by Mike on Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 5 views
IBM next will will begin shipping a computer with something that customers have not seen in a new mainframe from the company since 1995 — water cooling.
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 21 views
Best practice in datacentre design dictates that as much IT infrastructure as possible should be virtualised. Doing so improves agility, allowing the IT department to flex resources up and down to meet the demands of the business.
Given that virtualisation is happening, IT departments have a choice: roll out a scale-out architecture using a large volume of x86 servers to run virtual machines, or deploy a scale-up architecture, comprising fewer much larger, and often more expensive, Unix and Linux server boxes over commodity Windows hardware.
IBM’s new z/196 mainframe aims to tackle datacentre complexity by pulling together different applications, or workloads, in a single system. The system comprises a mainframe and Power and x86 blades, which enables the datacentre to run mainframe, Aix and Linux applications in the same floor space.
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Fidelity Information Systems (FIS) has put in place a strategy for integrating its myriad payment systems. This is centred on a ‘wrapper’ approach, using the newest of its offerings, its Nomad Software-derived Cortex debit and prepaid card system. Cortex is intended to provide a web services layer and standard look and feel. Functionality will be moved into this layer so that the back-end systems will increasingly become pure transaction engines.
FIS covers both the acquiring and switching sides of the sector. There is some overlap between the applications but the positioning is reasonably clear. On the switch side, the eFunds-derived Connex is one of FIS’s long-established workhorses. It runs on Hewlett-Packard’s Tandem-derived NonStop or IBM zOS platforms, with flat files or DB2, and is written in Cobol and Assembler at the back-end.
Posted by Mike on Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 31 views
PALO ALTO–IBM revealed more details of its 5.2-GHz chip on Tuesday, the fastest microprocessor ever announced. Don’t bet that you’ll ever be able to buy it, though.
At the Hot Chips 2010 conference here, IBM executives described the z196, which will power its Z-series of mainframes, which can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not over a million. IBM will ship the chip in September, said Brian Curran, an IBM distinguished engineer. The mainframe itself was announced in July.
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 41 views
We’ve become too reliant on the cloud. The Internet is down, and I can’t do a thing.
The cloud has failed me. Again. There is a serious power outage in the Berkley area, and now I am writing my column when I should be doing my No Agenda podcast. I’m not sure if a squirrel ate through an important cable or a car hit a telephone pole, but hours and hours have gone by without resolution.
This is a Comcast connection, but all the ISPs have these problems. With Comcast, one of my readers coined the term “Comcastrated” when it goes down, since you lose more than just the Internet. I’d hate to go to 100 percent redundancy for a situation that occurs probably twice a year, but I may have to if this sort of thing becomes more routine. I cannot see how it won’t, with everyone cutting back on everything in this economy.
There’s a reason that desktop computing evolved the way it did. The evolution of the PC stemmed from Mainframe computing and batch processing to distributed computing running off of a main computer—the minicomputer era—to stand-alone systems destined to become more powerful than the early mainframes. The difference was that these stand-alone microcomputing machines were controlled by one person. They were not shared by many and restricted by some guy in charge.
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PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Veryant, the COBOL and Java technology innovator, today announced a new update to isCOBOL Application Platform Suite (APS), its powerful COBOL development, deployment, and modernization platform. The new software release helps organizations maximize the business value of existing application assets with important new capabilities to better customize and control application management and modernization tasks, simplify migration to isCOBOL, and enhance resource management.
Posted by Mike on Monday, August 23, 2010 - 43 views
Today’s IT executives are managing very complex environments that contain a large variety of platforms and technologies – many of which are past their expected life, beyond vendor support and slowing down the business with the costs to maintain/support/change. The key to reducing costs and improving application change delivery (through enhancements, new product support, and new features and options) is simplifying the IT landscape and finding the most cost-effective operating environment. Recent estimates suggest that the typical IT budget is 80 percent “keeping the lights on” (support) and 20 percent new business (what the business wants), with support costs increasing.
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