We know what COBOL stands for
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, September 19, 2011 - 291 views
For many organizations, we’re beginning to a see a model of how IT customer support can be organized – and the model is coming from management who are completely platform-agnostic. To them, IT is IT – it doesn’t matter whether something runs on a mainframe or a distributed platform. And this new way of working brings with it new challenges.
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 198 views
Some Fun With Numbers Reveals the Ambiguity of the IT World
One of the major IT stories today involves a technology that grew almost 70% year-on-year and practically doubled its market share.
The other involves something that a major research company thinks will only command about 5% of the market in 2015.
The first sounds like a clear-cut winner. The other sounds like something that is dying on the vine.
The first of these is the IBM mainframe; the other is Cloud Computing.
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, June 6, 2011 - 271 views
All this talk about 2011 being the year of the cloud rings true. I say that because marketing hype is usually a bit ahead of the curve. But I realize that I’m using cloud computing a lot these days – and I don’t mean (necessarily) for work.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, May 16, 2011 - 343 views
It started with me looking for the best ‘office’ application to run under Honeycomb (Android 3) on a tablet – but I got sidetracked. It seems that Oracle has dumped OpenOffice, and Microsoft has a beta of Office 365 – it’s new cloud variant of the ubiquitous office software.
Posted by Mike on Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 445 views
Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he’s likely to roll his eyes. Cloud is just a new name — and a lot of hype — for what mainframes have done for years, he’ll say.
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 Monday, March 7, 2011 - 525 views
2011 has been dubbed by some as the year of the cloud – the year when cloud computing comes off the PowerPoint slides and onto a computer near you. Others have muttered wisely about similarities with client-server computing, which for many years was the ‘technology of the future’ at every presentation and never quite arrived the way we were promised.
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, February 19, 2011 - 485 views
The Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2011 has been available for download free from www.arcati.com/newyearbook11 for nearly a month now. Each new Yearbook is always greeted with enthusiasm by mainframers everywhere because it is such a unique source of information. And each year, many people find the results of the user survey especially interesting.
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