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Posted by Mike on Friday, September 3, 2010 - 23 views
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, August 26, 2010 - 31 views
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 17, 2010 - 37 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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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.
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 92 views
When Giorgos Tsapepas started as an intern at IBM in 2002, he had never used a mainframe. At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the university he attended in upstate New York, there was no instruction in handling the powerful machines that tackle complicated computing tasks for such industries as finance and health care. Now a mainframe expert, Tsapepas had to learn his specialty on the job.
Teaching mainframe skills is out of vogue at many universities with the advent of newer approaches to solving the biggest computing challenges. At the same time, many of the engineers capable of tinkering with the refrigerator-sized machines are nearing retirement. The average age of mainframe workers is 55 to 60, according to Dayton Semerjian, a senior vice-president at CA Technologies (CA), the second-largest maker of software for mainframe computers after IBM. “The big challenge with the mainframe is that the group that has worked on it—the Baby Boomers—is retiring,” Semerjian says. “The demographics are inescapable. If this isn’t addressed, it will be trouble for the platform.”
Posted by Mike on Monday, July 26, 2010 - 48 views
By Alan Zeichick
I’m a mainframe guy. Cut my teeth writing COBOL, PL/I and FORTRAN on the IBM System/370. CICS is my friend. Was playing with virtual machines long, long before there was anything called “DOS” or Windows” or “Linux.” My office closet is filled with punch cards and old nine-track tapes, all probably unreadable today. One of the happiest days of my professional life was trading in an old TeleVideo 925 monochrome terminal for a brand-new 3279 color display.
Posted by Mike on Friday, July 23, 2010 - 54 views
IBM announced Thursday its zEnterprise mainframe server, which it described as “the most powerful and energy-efficient mainframe ever.” The Armonk, N.Y.-based company called the new zEnterprise “the most significant design change in 20 years for the IBM mainframe.” At the same time, the company unveiled a new systems design that allows mainframe, POWER7 and System x servers to be managed as one virtual system.
IBM said its new systems design is the result of an R&D investment of more than $1.5 billion, combining the new zEnterprise mainframe with a new zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension and Unified Resource Manager. The resulting system, IBM said, can reduce cost of ownership by 55 percent and lower acquisition costs by 40 percent.
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 81 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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