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Posted by Mike on Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 101 views
Linus Torvalds released Linux on 5 October 1991, and by 1998 IBM was experimenting with it. In 2000 it was properly available on mainframes – along with the specialty processor IFL (Integrated Facility for Linux). The rest, as they say, is history.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, January 14, 2012 - 300 views
Every year, about this time, mainframe users are excited to get their hands on the latest edition of the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook. What makes the Yearbook stand out is that it’s an excellent reference work for all IBM mainframe professionals – no matter how many years of experience they have.
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, September 26, 2011 - 255 views
Keen as I am on selling my company’s services to help other organizations make the best use of social media, I never thought that I would be focusing a blog on our old friend Facebook. And yet, this week’s announcements at the F8 developer conference seem to have taken Facebook out of the ‘me-too’ duel with Google plus and Twitter and, in a quantum leap, put it way ahead of the game. Bringing Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of a Semantic Web closer.
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, September 19, 2011 - 301 views
For many organizations, we’re beginning to a see a model of how IT customer support can be organized – and the model is coming from management who are completely platform-agnostic. To them, IT is IT – it doesn’t matter whether something runs on a mainframe or a distributed platform. And this new way of working brings with it new challenges.
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 254 views
For two decades, people in tech circles have been saying that the mainframe is on its way out, or that it’s dead altogether. Funny thing about that — someone forgot to tell IBM.
Posted by Mike on Monday, July 18, 2011 - 215 views
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.
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, June 25, 2011 - 258 views
After years of sliding my security card in the lock and entering the machine room/data centre and seeing the mainframes in there change from Sci-Fi-style boxes with flashing lights to more mundane-looking boxes. From seeing simple DASD with less capacity than the memory stick in this laptop be replaced with cache controllers and more sophisticated data storage devices. It always seemed that there were plenty of mainframes around and any normal person (me) was constantly being offered tours round installations. So it comes as a bit of a shock when a youngster clearly has no idea what a mainframe looks like or what it does!
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 544 views
Almost everyone is predicting 2011 will be the year when cloud computing becomes a reality for many organizations. CA produced surveys towards the end of last year showing this to be part of the planning of most of the organizations they surveyed. Other surveys, like BMC’s and the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook found that cloud computing wasn’t quite on the radar of many of the people who actually do the day-to-day systems work.
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