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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, December 19, 2011 - 267 views
Well, as another year comes partying to an end, and everyone stops checking their e-mails on their smartphones or tablets and finally starts to let their hair down and enjoy a glass of something alcoholic, I thought I’d review the year through the lens of my company – iTech-Ed Ltd (www.itech-ed.com).
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, October 22, 2011 - 250 views
The Guide Share Europe (GSE) UK Annual Conference is taking place on 1-2 November at Whittlebury Hall, Whittlebury, Near Towcester, Northamptonshire NN12 8QH, UK.
Sponsors this year include IBM, Computacentre, EMC, Attachmate, Suse, CA, Novell, Compuware, Intellimagic, RSM Partners, Velocity Software, and Zephyr. And there will be 30 vendors in the associated exhibition.
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, April 24, 2011 - 313 views
I want to know what’s going on on my network – what do I do? Well this seemingly simple question has a complicated answer, which is historical and all to do with the separate worlds of the mainframes and everyone else coming together to give us our current complicated environment. Just to summarize, mainframes used SNA and VTAM to communicate and everyone else used TCP/IP. Sometime in the 1990s, all this came together. In addition, we now have people on iPads and smartphones using our networks – in fact, we can have people on iPads and smartphones controlling our networks!
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 533 views
Almost everyone is predicting 2011 will be the year when cloud computing becomes a reality for many organizations. CA produced surveys towards the end of last year showing this to be part of the planning of most of the organizations they surveyed. Other surveys, like BMC’s and the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook found that cloud computing wasn’t quite on the radar of many of the people who actually do the day-to-day systems work.
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, March 13, 2011 - 1,086 views
I’ve been putting together a list of CICS tools and I thought I’d share some of the information I’d found.
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 245 views
CA Mainframe Chorus is the most important innovation yet in CA Technologies Mainframe 2.0 strategy to simplify mainframe management, and help this critical platform to continue to be an effective and integral part of CA Technologies customers’ evolving IT infrastructure.
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, December 12, 2010 - 264 views
On 6 December, CA announced that CA Mainframe Chorus and CA Mainframe Chorus for DB2 Database Management were available. As it’s so close to the Christmas festivities, I thought I’d introduce this blog with a Christmas-cracker-style pun – well, it is that time of year!
Posted by Mike on Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 259 views
A panel of mainframe experts from CA Technologies and other companies discussed the role of mainframes in the cloud and how organizations can attract and train skilled mainframe workers.
Years after the mainframe was declared dead, it continues to play a critical role in the data center. According to the report, 80 percent of surveyed organizations said that mainframes were an important part of their current business strategy, and 73 percent said it is, or will be a significant component in their cloud strategy.
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