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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, March 27, 2011 - 543 views
How many times have you come away from a conference or a presentation and thought wow, that was really useful? Perhaps one small nugget of information from the speaker has opened a door for further development of work at your site. And most technical presentations are full of gems of information – both for the novice user and those more technically experienced.
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, February 6, 2011 - 884 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, January 16, 2011 - 385 views
With so much of IBM’s software now in its 40s, it’s no wonder that using it requires quite a lot of knowledge. And many people have developed a whole range of nifty tips and tricks that they can use when things go wrong or to help make things work better. That’s where user groups come in. A user group provides an opportunity for people to share their hints and tips with others, and, in return, learn some tried-and-tested new ones.
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Posted by Mike on Friday, April 9, 2010 - 532 views
IBM’s Systems and Technology Group is the company’s $19 billion semiconductor, server, storage and systems software business. IBM systems and storage solutions are designed to enable clients to assemble smarter IT infrastructures that drive down cost. IBM combines a broad portfolio of integrated software, servers and storage—built specifically to deal with the demands of modern business workloads—to help clients transform their organizations and compete effectively. While IBM has built more of a reputation for software and services in recent years, the company remains true to its hardware heritage. This slide show gives 25 reasons why hardware and systems remain very relevant to IBM, its future and its bottom line. (READ MORE)
Posted by Mike on Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 3,724 views
Interested in DB2? This group is for you! Fans of all DB2 versions on all platforms (DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows, DB2 for z/OS and DB2 for i5/OS) are welcome.
DB2 is IBM’s flagship database management system designed to handle both relational data as well as data stored as XML documents. The hallmark characteristics of DB2 are world’s best proven performance, virtually unlimited scalability, unmatched reliability and security.
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