Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, February 6, 2011 - 932 views
It’s so easy to forget, or just take it as read, that mainframes have been able to successfully run with five nines availability for well over a decade. What that means is achieving 99.999 percent of scheduled uptime. In other words, it means that unscheduled downtime is less than five and half minutes in a year! Now that kind of amazing performance is something that boxes running other operating systems can only dream of. Some are working towards that level of availability, but others (you know who I’m thinking of here) aren’t even close.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, December 12, 2010 - 287 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!
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Posted by Mike on Saturday, November 6, 2010 - 611 views
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 264 views
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.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 227 views
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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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 563 views
PORTLAND, Ore. — Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has always had many user and developer fans. Enterprise business fans? Not so much. Canonical hopes to change that with today’s, July 21, launch of a virtual appliance of IBM’s DB2 Express-C software running on the Ubuntu cloud computing platform, in private and public cloud configurations. The company also announced that IBM has validated the full version of DB2 software on Ubuntu 10.04.
This is all part of Canonical’s plan to make Ubuntu just as much of an enterprise business player as Novell or Red Hat.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 1,195 views
Customer experience management solution available on DB2 9.7
CINCINNATI – June 29, 2010 – Software and services provider Cincom Systems (http://www.cincom.com/), an IBM Premier Business Partner, announces that its Synchrony Customer Experience Management (CEM) solution (http://winningconversations.cincom.com/) is validated with IBM’s DB2 database software. Synchrony and DB2 users can benefit from the combined technologies to connect and interact at a personal level with customers, while gaining full benefit from DB2’s performance, reliability, security, and ease of use.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, May 24, 2010 - 316 views
IBM claimed that several companies have moved database management software from Oracle to DB2 in the past 12 months, and that its new SQL Skin software will … READ MORE
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