Posted by Mike on Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 329 views
For years now many have thought the mainframe would become as outdated as the abacus, but yet they have not gone away. And if this week’s newly launched IBM mainframes live up to the billing, perhaps they will become as “sexy” to service providers as some other computing hardware these days.
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Posted by Mike on Friday, February 26, 2010 - 370 views

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A classified review of the United States Secret Service’s computer technology found that the agency’s computers were fully operational only 60 percent of the time because of outdated systems and a reliance on a computer mainframe that dates to the 1980s, according to Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.
“We have here a premiere law enforcement organization in our country which is responsible for the security of the president and the vice president and other officials of our government, and they have to have better IT than they have,” said Lieberman, who is chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. READ MORE