Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, January 22, 2012 - 166 views
The Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2012 is now available for download from www.arcati.com/newyearbook12 – and it’s FREE. Each new Yearbook is always greeted with enthusiasm by mainframers everywhere because it is such a unique source of information. And each year, many people find the results of the user survey especially interesting. And this year, for the very first time, survey respondents indicated that, at their sites, more data was stored off mainframes than on.
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 259 views
Attachmate’s SUSE Linux division is updating their Linux appliance-making technology with a new release. SUSE Studio 1.2 includes new features as well as new branding for what was once known as the SUSE Appliance Toolkit.
SUSE Studio started out as an online service in 2009 and then expanded it with an on-premise version for enterprises and software vendors in 2010. For on-premise users, the technology was known as the SUSE Appliance Toolkit and included the SUSE Lifecycle Management Server (SLMS).
With SLMS an ISV can manage software licenses and entitlements as well as distribute software patches and updates. With the SUSE Studio 1.2 update, the on-premise suite will only have the SUSE Studio name and the Appliance Toolkit name is being dropped. Instead, there is now the SUSE Studio Standard and Advanced Editions. The key addition with the advanced edition is that it enables users to build Linux appliances that will run on IBM’s System Z mainframe.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, July 18, 2011 - 210 views
With a bit of touching up and reconfiguring, a mainframe can be an easy and cost-effective way to host a private cloud
Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he’ll likely roll his eyes. Cloud is just a much-hyped new name for what mainframes have done for years, he’ll say.
“A mainframe is a cloud,” contends Jon Toigo, CEO of Toigo Partners International, a data management consultancy in Dunedin, Fla.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, July 17, 2011 - 211 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 Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 199 views
Some Fun With Numbers Reveals the Ambiguity of the IT World
One of the major IT stories today involves a technology that grew almost 70% year-on-year and practically doubled its market share.
The other involves something that a major research company thinks will only command about 5% of the market in 2015.
The first sounds like a clear-cut winner. The other sounds like something that is dying on the vine.
The first of these is the IBM mainframe; the other is Cloud Computing.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 201 views
What does two and two make? The answer: a myth.
It’s a joke, but not a very funny one, for IBM’s System z team: when they talk to customers who refuse to consider a move to a mainframe environment, two and two is their objection: “it will take me two years to do it, and I’m going to spend two million dollars in the struggle,” they say.
If this were true, you’d have to be crazy, a masochist or have a really bad data centre to embark on a plan like this.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, June 6, 2011 - 273 views
All this talk about 2011 being the year of the cloud rings true. I say that because marketing hype is usually a bit ahead of the curve. But I realize that I’m using cloud computing a lot these days – and I don’t mean (necessarily) for work.
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Posted by Mike on Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 446 views
Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he’s likely to roll his eyes. Cloud is just a new name — and a lot of hype — for what mainframes have done for years, he’ll say.
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