Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 55 views
Since 2008, the world seems to have lurched its way from one financial crisis to the next. In the UK they’re talking about double dip recession. In Spain, things look difficult. And in Greece, things look impossible! So how are the big mainframe companies weathering the storm? Are we looking at an extinction-level event? Are the big players (the metaphorically dominant dinosaurs) going to be replaced by smaller companies (the metaphorical mammals)?
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, May 6, 2012 - 83 views
For the fourth year in a row, CA Technologies is hosting its free virtual trade show. As always, there are educational presentations to help mainframe users get more value from their existing products, and improve their technical skills. You can find out more and register by going to ca.com/mainframe/may. Last year’s event drew 5,000 registrants from 59 countries; and connected partners, industry experts, and colleagues via virtual booths and online chats.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, April 29, 2012 - 138 views
I last looked at extending wireless networks in “Wireless working” in October 2006 and “Extending a small network” in January 2007. So it’s about time I had a look at what’s currently available. Here at iTech-Ed Ltd, we got our hands on the Netgear Universal Wifi Range Extender – WN3000RP.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, April 22, 2012 - 398 views
There was a time when mainframers simply claimed that they’d been using the cloud computing paradigm all along. Then IBM came up with SmartCloud, its vision for cloud computing, offering SmartCloud services and SmartCloud solutions. Last week saw the announcement of the PureSystems private cloud packages. But for non-mainframe users or non-IBM technology users, the clouds are getting darker!
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, April 15, 2012 - 156 views
On Wednesday 11 April, IBM introduced to the world the PureSystems family of data centre infrastructure products. The idea behind them is that they will simplify the management, automation, and running of enterprise applications on a range of virtualization technologies.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 205 views
‘Continuous data ingest’ gorges on bits, compression crunches ‘em
With the launch of DB2 10.1, Big Blue is adding a slew of new features that make DB2 more useful for modern, big-data workloads.
Depending on how you want to count it, IBM is either the world’s number-two or number-three seller of database management systems, and it has a lot of secondary systems and services business that are driven off its DB2 databases.
Notice that we said DB2 databases. IBM has three different DB2s, not just one. There’s DB2 for the mainframe, DB2 for its midrange IBM i (formerly OS/400) platform, and DB2 for Linux, Unix, and Windows platforms.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, April 2, 2012 - 222 views
So if cloud is the answer, what exactly is the question? That’s what a new study (which will be published in April) by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC has tried to find out. Now, obviously, I’ve been mixing with the wrong kind of people, but I thought the days when someone in IT said they worked in IT rather than naming the company that paid their salary had gone. I can remember when smart programmers could move from one well-paid job to the next and never worry about the name over the door as they went to work. They just knew about IT and their services were very much in demand. I thought those days were well behind us. I thought the CIO and CFO and everyone else on the board worked together to move an organization forward. But apparently that’s not the case.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, March 26, 2012 - 257 views
The BBC in the UK produces a wonderful programme called QI – IQ reversed, but officially standing for Quite Interesting. The point of the show, which is a humorous quiz show, is to not only illustrate how little we know, but also highlight the things we think we know that are actually wrong! So, for example, the teams might be asked to name an animal that buries its head in the sand. A contestant saying ostrich will have points deducted because no-one has ever seen an ostrich bury its head in the sand. And yet the myth dates back to Pliny the Elder. You get the idea of the show.
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