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Posted by Mike on Friday, September 3, 2010
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
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
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.
Posted by Mike on Thursday, August 26, 2010
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
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.
Posted by Mike on Thursday, August 19, 2010
It’s the mid-1970s, and this programmer pilot fish works for an IT service provider that supports several big insurance companies.
“We ran a huge (at that time) mainframe and a nationwide network and, of course, a large computer room,” says fish.
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 17, 2010
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today an IBM POWER7-based system with IBM DB2 database software and IBM System Storage broke all previous records and topped the 10 million transactions per minute mark using the industry standard TPC performance benchmark, easily besting all results previously achieved by competitors such as HP and Oracle.
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IBM and CA are hard-pressed to replace the aging Baby Boomers who support their still-indispensable and profitable mainframe business. To combat the threat, IBM began distributing its System Z Academic Initiative to spread the mainframe gospel, and CA has changed the look of mainframe software to make it more appealing.
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