Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, October 31, 2011 - 253 views
I guess any two pundits sitting in a room together 10 years ago and talking about IBM’s future would have been more likely to predict Star Trek-like beaming technology and computers you could talk to than a mainframe that integrated Windows servers and woman landing the top job at IBM.
And here we are. It’s almost November 2011, and both are about to come to pass.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, July 17, 2011 - 210 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 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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Posted by Mike on Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 201 views
Ellison: “IBM DB2 is good on mainframes, the best in the world. Oracle is good on everything else—x86 and all others. It’s too bad DB2 can’t run on modern …
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