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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, December 19, 2011 - 280 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).
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 246 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 Mike on Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 295 views
Most firms expect to increase Big Iron usage, according to a survey by BMC. So why is the platform still attracting new workloads?
Demand for the trusty old mainframe has survived the recession and is still a vital part of many companies’ IT infrastructure, according to BMC Software’s 2010 Mainframe User survey.
The survey, now in its fifth year, quizzed 1,765 IT professionals, managers and executives from businesses all over the world. The majority of respondents (84%) said they expect to see growing or steady MIPS (millions of instructions per second) usage on the mainframe while 60% believe the mainframe will grow and attract new workloads over the next year.
Posted by Mike on Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 756 views
October 7th 2010 signaled the end of a ten month project to migrate a world leader in investment banking off their legacy Software AG application platform, Natural/Adabas to Cobol/DB2. The objective of the project was primarily to cut costs in maintaining and operating older technology and to consolidate infrastructure in accordance with corporate standards.
In the middle of 2009 a large IT Services provider approached MOST to collaborate in modernizing the bank’s application portfolio. MOST was identified as having the migration technology and tools, the people skills and the track record to do the project, in what was understood to be an extremely aggressive time frame. The project called for migrating data, applications and all the environmental components that comprise a fully functioning production system by no later than August 2010.
Posted by Mike on Monday, September 20, 2010 - 133 views
Classes on RACF Administration, Advanced Facilities Help Security Administrators Secure Mainframe Data, Applications
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ — Vanguard Integrity Professionals, the leading provider of enterprise security software and training for mainframes, today announced its RACF® Training Schedule for fall 2010. Some of the classes the company is offering include Basic RACF Administration and Advanced RACF Facilities training. Attendees of all Vanguard training classes will earn Continuing Professional Education credits. Those who attend 5-day classes, which include eight hours of lab work, will earn 36 CPE credits.
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 179 views
Best practice in datacentre design dictates that as much IT infrastructure as possible should be virtualised. Doing so improves agility, allowing the IT department to flex resources up and down to meet the demands of the business.
Given that virtualisation is happening, IT departments have a choice: roll out a scale-out architecture using a large volume of x86 servers to run virtual machines, or deploy a scale-up architecture, comprising fewer much larger, and often more expensive, Unix and Linux server boxes over commodity Windows hardware.
IBM’s new z/196 mainframe aims to tackle datacentre complexity by pulling together different applications, or workloads, in a single system. The system comprises a mainframe and Power and x86 blades, which enables the datacentre to run mainframe, Aix and Linux applications in the same floor space.
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