Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, August 15, 2011 - 372 views
There used to be a time when selling software was a cut-throat game. A salesman would turn up saying how good their product was and quietly poison the prospective client’s mind against alternative products from other vendors – listing their weaknesses and down-playing their strengths. In fact, I’ve even been paid to write documents for sales teams to use doing exactly that!
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, July 17, 2011 - 251 views
It comes and goes. It’s like a pendulum swinging in one direction, running out of steam, and then swinging in the completely opposite direction. And it applies to countries, economies, and the way people view computing. Let me explain…
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Posted by Mike on Friday, July 15, 2011 - 259 views
A year after announcing its breakthrough zEnterprise mainframe system, IBM has announced an entry-level mainframe server to extend mainframe qualities and capabilities to more organizations, especially companies and governments in emerging markets in Asia, Africa and elsewhere. In addition to the new mainframe, IBM announced support for System x blades within the zEnterprise System running Linux.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, July 2, 2011 - 243 views
So, your organization has a mainframe – had one for years – and everything is nicely locked down. You can recover almost up to the minute the system or subsystem crashed (which it hardly ever does), and you’ve got people who seem to know, almost by instinct these days, when something isn’t performing quite right.
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 375 views
Even after ten years of successful mainframe deployments, people and organizations not familiar with mainframe Linux often still see the operating system as suitable only for commodity hardware. While Linux indeed runs beautifully on x86 hardware, it is hardly limited to that platform. If you have ever wondered whether Linux can handle complex and scalable mainframe workloads, read on for the exciting truth about Linux/mainframe synergies.
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Posted by Mike on Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 412 views
MONTREAL, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ – Speedware, a provider of legacy management and IT modernization solutions, today announced that it has signed an agreement with COBOL-IT to distribute COBOL-IT’s enterprise class open source COBOL in the North American market and to provide North American based support to COBOL-IT users. According to the terms of the agreement, Speedware will be the latest North American sales and support center, providing 24/7 technical support, re-hosting/system integration services, and training. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, November 28, 2010 - 1,158 views
Unix System Services (USS) on a mainframe basically allows Unix applications to run and communicate. Running under USS is Syslog Daemon or SyslogD. This is an important system component because it’s part of z/OS’s Intrusion Detection and prevention Services (IDS). SyslogD receives detailed event messages, such as security violations, as well as messages from many other communications services such as FTP and AT-TLS, plus messages from routers, switches, and other network-based devices.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, November 8, 2010 - 287 views
Clerity and Logica deliver on-time migration from mainframe to Linux, improving IT flexibility and dramatically lowering costs
Clerity, a full-service provider of mainframe migration, modernization, and optimization solutions, and Logica, a leading business and technology service company and strategic Clerity partner, today announced that the IT Department of the Ministry of Justice in Portugal, Instituto das Technologias de Informacao na Justica (ITIJ), has reduced annual operating costs by 95 percent through a mainframe migration and modernization project. By migrating its IBM(R) Information Management System (IMS(TM)) environment to open systems and decommissioning the mainframe, ITIJ dramatically lowered costs and established a flexible foundation to effectively respond to future business requirements.
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