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Sony's Centrino 2 laptop lineup: Details of Sony's new laptops have been trickling out for several weeks, but Sony held off on an official announcement to coincide with Intel's Centrino 2 launch this week. Sony introduced four new VAIO lines ranging from the 3-pound Z-series ultraportable with a 13.1-inch display to the...; Tags: Sony Corp., IBM zSeries, Hard Drive, Sony Vaio, Intel Centrino, Memory, Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Core 2 Duo, Series, Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., SP1, SR Series, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-07-16
A Perspective on the Transformation of zSeries to Support New Workloads: In days of yore, the mainframe focused on enterprise-wide business transactions and long running batch processing. Because these critical business applications required rapid access to data, the mainframe became the natural home for corporate information. In parallel, distributed systems were employed to provide flexibility at the organization level. The personal...; Tags: IBM zSeries, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2007-01-25
Concurrent Driver Upgrade: Method to Eliminate Scheduled System Outages for New Function Releases: The reliability, availability, and serviceability goal for an IBM zSeries system is to provide 24-hour-per-day, 365-day-per-year service with reduced system downtime. The continuous reliable operation rate has been improved with every new zSeries release by using error prevention, error detection, error recovery, and other methods that contribute to avoiding unplanned...; Tags: IBM zSeries, Outage, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2007-01-01
Best Practices for IP Workload Distribution in an IBM zSeries Server Environment: This white paper documents the results of an interoperability testing initiative. It should be noted that the implementation of any component illustrated in this paper neither constitutes nor represents the respective component's only possible implementation. It is beyond the scope of this paper to exhaustively document each component's full spectrum...; Tags: Paper, IBM zSeries, Environment, IP, Best Practice, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2006-11-20
Creating User Profiles for the LPEX Editor in WebSphere Developer for zSeries V6.0: User profiles ease the customization of the LPEX editor. They eliminate manual definition and provide a way to organize editor settings for special tasks. This paper shows how to extend the LPEX editor in WebSphere Developer for z/Series to automatically load a user profile when the editor opens. By following...; Tags: Developer, IBM zSeries, IBM WebSphere, Editor, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-07-12

WebSphere Portal Server Cloning on Linux for zSeries and z9: Installing WebSphere Portal can be a time consuming process. There is a great deal of software involved and even though the actual installation process is largely automated, the elapsed time required to simply lay it all down can be significant. For availability and throughput reasons, it is also common to...; Tags: IBM zSeries, Linux, IBM WebSphere Portal Server, IBM WebSphere, Server, Portal Server, Middleware, Portals, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet; White papers 2006-06-05
Performance Driven Automation With OMEGAMON and System Automation for z/OS: IBM Tivoli System Automation for z/OS (SA z/OS) provides management and automation of zSeries resources such as Applications through monitoring and event driven automation. SA z/OS provides an additional function called monitor resources that allows users to see status gradients between up and down. This status is stored in the...; Tags: IBM zSeries, Monitor, Performance, IBM z/OS, Automation, Utility Computing, Mainframes, Servers, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software; White papers 2006-05-01
Using Cryptographic Adapters for Web Servers With Linux on IBM System z9 and zSeries: This paper describes how to configure Web servers (such as Apache2 and IBM HTTP server) to use hardware cryptographic devices in Linux running on IBM System z9 and zSeries platforms. Hardware cryptographic cards are used to improve SSL performance during SSL handshaking. RedHat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server and SUSE Linux...; Tags: Web Server, IBM zSeries, Adapter, IBM Corp., Linux, Web Servers, Mainframes, Servers, Open Source, Ssl/Tls, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Hardware, Security; White papers 2006-02-21
SAP Application Server Measurements on IBM eServer zSeries Using Linux for zSeries and z/VM: There are several options for running application servers with a DB2 for z/OS SAP DB Server. One of the more intriguing options is running the SAP Application Server functions on Linux for zSeries. This option is of particular interest because it exploits both the hardware and virtualization capabilities intrinsic to...; Tags: IBM zSeries, Virtualization, Application Server, IBM eServer, SAP AG, IBM eServer zSeries, IBM Corp., z/VM, Mainframes, Linux, Utility Computing, Servers, Application Servers, Middleware, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software; White papers 2006-02-07
Mainframes and GIS: A New ESRI Solution on IBM zSeries Using Linux: IBM and ESRI are leading the development of Geographical Information Systems GIS solutions away from a specialized departmental technology into a more comprehensive enterprise-wide platform. Enterprise GIS now contains all the reliability, manageability, and performance requirements demanded by Enterprise Information Technology solutions. Customer demand encouraged IBM and ESRI to expand...; Tags: IBM zSeries, Linux, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, GIS, Utility Computing, Hardware, Software; White papers 2006-01-17
Linux on zSeries: Hardware and Software Encryption Performance for WebSphere Application Server: IBM designs mainframes to provide an environment that is security rich and responsive. The use of cryptographic accelerator hardware is one of the ways that IBM designers respond to the problems of security and responsiveness. Since Secure Socket Layer SSL handshakes require extensive compute resource, the cryptographic accelerator hardware is...; Tags: IBM zSeries, IBM WebSphere, Performance, Application Server, Encryption, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM Corp., Accelerator Hardware, Linux, Application Servers, Middleware, Mainframes, Enterprise Software, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware; White papers 2005-11-01
Measurements of SAP ECC 5.0 With Unicode on IBM eServer zSeries Using DB2 for z/OS V8: This paper describes several measurements, or stress tests, that were done using a zSeries Database Server and DB2 for z/OS in both non-Unicode and Unicode environments. It looked at both DB Server and Application Server effects. In the case of the Application Server, both AIX as well as Linux are...; Tags: IBM zSeries, Unicode, Data Compression, IBM eServer, SAP AG, IBM z/OS, IBM eServer zSeries, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2005-08-25
A Shared WebSphere Application Server Installation for Linux on zSeries: This paper describes a process that enables you to share one installation of WebSphere Application Server among many Linux guests running under z/VM. As a platform for Linux, one of the strengths of zSeries is the ability to centrally manage many Linux images. But as the number of Linux images...; Tags: IBM zSeries, IBM WebSphere, Application Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server, Linux, Application Servers, Mainframes, Middleware, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Servers, Software, Hardware; White papers 2005-08-19
zSeries Qualified WDM Vendor: Adva Optical Networking: This IBM paper is one in a series describing zSeries qualified optical Wavelength Division Multiplexing WDM vendor products for Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex GDPS solutions. International Business Machines IBM Corporation and Adva Optical Networking have successfully completed qualification testing of the Adva Fiber Service Platform 2000 (FSP 2000). This paper...; Tags: IBM zSeries, ADVA Optical Networking, WDM, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2005-04-04
Performance Test Suite Results for SAS 9.1 Foundation on the IBM zSeries Mainframe: This paper presents the performance results that were obtained from two, complementary, batch test suites that were run using SAS 8.2 and SAS 9.1. SAS uses batch test suites to monitor the performance of commonly used features of SAS Foundation software during the development cycle and between releases. These features...; Tags: IBM zSeries, Performance, Mainframe, SAS Institute, IBM Corp.; White papers 2005-03-01
Large Scale Linux Solution Test Center Informix 9.4.0 FC3 on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8 SP2 (64-bit) on IBM zSeries: The advantage of 64-bit databases over their 31-bit predecessors is to allow the database administrators to define larger buffer pools for high database buffer hit ratio and best throughput performance. Optimum throughput was achieved when it used SCSI devices with ext2 filesystem. The SCSI device driver default setting for the...; Tags: IBM zSeries, Linux, Service Pack 2, Informix Software, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, SCSI, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8, SuSE Linux, SuSE, IBM Corp., 64-Bit, Open Source, Servers, Databases, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2005-02-01
Networking Overview for Linux on zSeries: As new hardware is introduced and z/VM virtualization technology evolves, an ever increasing number of networking options are available to the Linux on zSeries operating system. Depending on when you implemented Linux on zSeries, the networking infrastructure you chose might now be superseded by a more advanced technology. This IBM...; Tags: IBM zSeries, Network, IBM Corp., Linux, Mainframes, Utility Computing, Networking, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware; White papers 2004-12-06
SAS 9.1 on the IBM zSeries Mainframe: What's New and What's Evolving: SAS 9.1 is the culmination of a multi-year project to revise and extend SAS architecture to meet the demands of enterprise-class applications and solutions. As a result of this project, SAS now offers its customers the new SAS Business Intelligence BI Architecture. This paper focuses on the role of the...; Tags: IBM zSeries, SAS Institute, IBM Corp., SAS 9.1, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2004-12-01
zSeries checks into hospital: zSeries checks into hospitalzSeries checks into hospitalGood luck! I have yet to see anyplace become the paperless office. Been hearing about it since '96 or so.; Tags: Mainframes, Utility computing, HEALTHCARE, Servers, IBM zSeries, hospital; Discussion threads 2004-06-29
German finance unit chooses Linux: German finance unit chooses LinuxMore interesting from the pouint of view of server consolidation30-odd Enterprise series and HP-UX boxes sounds like a bit of a hairball. Consolodation onto two Z-series mainframes makes a lot of sense. When Matahorn group did this a few years ago, they achieved a twentyfold imrovement...; Tags: Mainframes, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Utility computing, Servers, finance, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM zSeries, IBM Corp., finance unit; Discussion threads 2004-02-10