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- CES 2009: Sony launches eco line of Bravia TVs, adds Internet Widgets to XBR, Z series sets
- At yesterday's news conference, Sony introduced a few novel products for the company, but when it came to HDTVs, there were no major announcements. Along with adding 240Hz refresh rates and its InternetLink features to more sets, the biggest news was a new series of energy-efficient TVs that fall under...
- Tags: Sony Corp., IBM zSeries, Internet, VE5 Series, TVs, Mainframes, Tv & Home Theater, Servers, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- 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
- 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, IBM Corp., Automation, SA z/OS, Mainframes, Utility Computing, Servers, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software
- White papers 2006-05-01
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Best Practices for End-to-End zSeries Application Availability and How They Help You Avoid the Risk of Business Interruption
- On demand business requires high availability and disaster recovery, as unplanned downtime can cause lost sales, migration of customers to your competitors, or even drive your company out of business. The combination of GDPS Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex, Tivoli System Automation for z/OS, and Tivoli NetView for z/OS provide a...
- Tags: IBM zSeries, IBM z/OS, Best Practice, IBM Corp., Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- Webcasts
- LGT Teams With IBM to Consolidate Oracle Instances on zSeries
- Headquartered in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, the LGT Group is the financial services firm of the Liechtenstein Princely Family. The challenge was to optimize existing Oracle database environment through consolidation of physical servers on IBM - zSeries with Linux; requirements included improved security and availability, simpler systems management, and lower operating costs....
- Tags: IBM zSeries, Oracle Corp., IBM Corp., Linux, Mainframes, Utility Computing, Servers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware
- Case studies
- Software AG Develops Tamino Using Linux on zSeries by Compiling With Systems/C From DIGNUS
- Software AG, headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, is Europe's largest provider of system software, offering leading-edge technology for data management and electronic business. Software AG saw that its software development environment was not meeting its needs. The software group at Software AG learned about Dignus and is now using the Dignus...
- Tags: IBM zSeries, Linux, Software AG, Dignus, Data Management, Mainframes, Tools & Techniques, Servers, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Hardware, Management, Software
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- DOJ probes IBM's mainframe business
- M/F competitionThere use to be plug compatible m/f from Amdahl and Fujitsu. When IBM switched from bi-polar to CMOS technology, the competition was unable to make the same switch. They have left the field.A few years ago, there was a small manufacturer of a PC server capable of...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, IBM Corp., mainframe, U.S. Department of Justice, M/F
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- To the Moon: The Integrators
- The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...
- Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Are any open source projects too big to lose
- Are any open source projects too big to loseAn enemy of an enemy...It seems clear that these "crown jewels" are continuing sources of vexation to MS. So why would MS arch-enemy Oracle do anything to reduce this effect?On the other hand, might MS counter-move by buying some open source...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Databases, UNIX, Oracle Corp., open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source project, MySQL, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-22
- Kickfire: Released for all the right reasons, but with the worst timing?
- Kickfire: Released for all the right reasons, but with the worst timing?TPC-H numbers, not TPC-C numbersTPC-C is an OLTP benchmark, while TPC-H is a DSS/DW benchmark. myKickAsSQL PlanOracle proposes to buy Kickfire, lock stock and Query Processing Barrel.Invites entire company to expenses-paid weekend to discuss the plan ...1. Customers...
- Tags: Databases, OPEN SOURCE, Kickfire, Oracle Corp., MySQL, database
- Discussion threads 2009-04-22
- Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10
- Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10Over a barrelis where IBM has you if you still use mainframes. Not only is the hardware very expensive, but the labor is too. Universities stopped their mainframes ages ago, so no CS student today has any idea what a mainframe is. This means that you...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Processors, Hardware cost, Shaw, mainframe, Z10, hardware, CPU
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- The thing that's most striking about the "heavy lifting" carried out by the typical zSeries based data center in 2006? There have been changes in execution, but not in role or overall management methods, since the 1920s - thus what we see today is the same old same old,...
- Tags: ibm mainframe, data center, mainframe, data-processing, ibm corp., hrips, data center staff, data centers, storage, hardware, data management, paul murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
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