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Memo to Google

Memo to Google Natural Evolution of Software, Not DevolutionTwo important innovations since the times of time-sharing: multitasking and virtualization. Whereas time sharing was marked by batch jobs run serially, multitasking allowed for sharing of computing power between concurrent program processes and virtualization took that one step further and allowed...

Tags: Mainframes, Virtualization, cloud computing, operating system, IT IS, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-03-24

IBM, Microsoft and open source citizenship

IBM, Microsoft and open source citizenshipOSS must focus on M$ onlyOSS should create projects that will replace all the premium M$ products.IBM should provide the infrastructure and patent protection against M$ goons.This way everyone but M$ will florish.RE: IBM, Microsoft and open source citizenshipI think you need to re-read my...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., mainframe, open source, PSI

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that Mainframe

You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that MainframeWrong way.....Rather than virtualizing the x86 on the zos, wouldnt it be better to virtualize the zos on the x86?One of the milstones around the neck of the computing industry as a whole is the licence price IBM recieves from its mainframe...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Processors, mouse, mainframe, Intel x86, Gonna Need

Discussion threads 2009-03-05

HP StorageWorks XP Disk Array and Mainframe White Paper: High Performance FICON

As previously mentioned in this paper, zHPF or high performance FICON for system z is an enhancement of the FICON channel architecture; which also means compatibility with certain standards: Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling standard (FC-FS), Fibre Channel Switch Fabric and Switch Control Requirements (FC-SW) and Fibre Channel Single-Byte-4 (FC-SB-4)...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Fibre Channel, HP StorageWorks, Mainframe, High-performance, Architecture, Disk Array, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-03-01

Hitachi Universal Storage PlatformV FICON Express 4 Mainframe Systems Performance

The performance results presented above demonstrate how the fourth generation of Universal Star Network Crossbar switch architecture has been built to scale and perform in the most demanding situations. It shows the overall the test series shows that that not only can the USP-V handle extreme IO conditions in a...

Tags: Performance, Hitachi Ltd., Mainframe, Performance Management, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware

White papers 2009-02-21

Hitachi Universal Storage PlatformV FICON Express 4 Mainframe Systems Performance: A Performance Brief

The performance results presented just demonstrates how the fourth generation of Universal Star Network Crossbar switch architecture has been built to scale and perform in the most demanding situations. It says how without saturating the Microprocessors in the Host Channel PCB it have achieved read and write cache hit IO...

Tags: Performance, Hitachi Ltd., Mainframe, Performance Management, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware

White papers 2009-02-21

IBM accused of mainframe monopoly

IBM accused of mainframe monopolyLOL!And it's only taken 30 years for someone to recognize that?Besides, what possible point is there in arguing about this now? They're peripheral to mainstream computing now at best.Sauce for the gooseIf the allegations are substantiated then the law should be enforced on IBM as...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, mainframe monopoly, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-20

HP intensifies the mainframe battle

HP intensifies the mainframe battleDinosaurs are immortal - fortunately.1) With apologies to whoever coined the phrase: "Most of IT history of the last 25 years has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good".2) Anything you can do on a server, can be done on a mainframe - and orders-of-magnitude...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, commodity computing, Dinosaur, mainframe, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2009-01-16

An interpretation of the cloud

An interpretation of the clouda questioncloud computing does not address the small machine computing side of the equation, it adresses the big machine side. Loud does not pretend to replace clients, but storage and application servers.So what is your point there ?The cloud is not for everyoneIf you are a...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, big machine

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

IT's horsedrawn horseless carriages

IT's horsedrawn horseless carriagesStill arguing against the mainframe?The potential new market for mainframes is small. It's possible, Murph, that your real argument is against virtualization in general rather than mainframes in particular, but what you include in the essay doesn't arrive at that point.Also, where did you get the...

Tags: IBM Corp., information technology, J-type, mainframe, virtualization

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

The 2008 Chutzpah in IT Marketing Awards

The 2008 Chutzpah in IT Marketing AwardsWanna clarify...?[b]The 2008 Tyrian Silver Shekels go to the Wintel Customer Base - for increasing their purchases of Vista on Core Duo after the Wintel partners switched to marketing their yet undeliverable copies of the same Apple and AMD technologies they've been denigrating for...

Tags: Mainframes, Virtualization, Servers, mainframe, Apple Inc., server, Linux, IBM Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., software

Discussion threads 2008-12-29

Top virtualization trends for 2009

Top virtualization trends for 2009Re: "more platforms ... mainframe – are entering the domain of virtual...Don't you have that backwards?The mainframe has been virtualized since the 1980's.It's the "Wintel" world that is finally entering the virtualization domain.RE: Top virtualization trends for 2009I work from home doing IT Security Administration....

Tags: cloud computing, Storage management, Utility computing, Mainframes, virtualization

Discussion threads 2008-12-11

From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture

From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture???"At a ratio of about one support technician for every 20 NT servers, PC staffing exploded along with server populations."Could you give reliable source for that figure ?"these problems led to the evolution of a one application per box rule"in the late 90 this rule...

Tags: Mainframes, Linux, Servers, Storage management, Storage area networks (SAN), Operating systems, mainframe, server, JBOD, windows server, Microsoft Windows, disk, virtualization, SAN, Unix

Discussion threads 2008-12-05

Oracle adds data-integrity code to Linux kernel

Oracle adds data-integrity code to Linux kernelOracle adds data-integrity code to Linux KernelIt's interesting to note that Oracle's contributions to the Linux kernel are such that every one made gets a press release and media attention.Looking at all the code contributed by IBM, Intel, Novell, Red Hat etc on a...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Oracle Corp., data integrity, Linux kernel, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-12-05

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 Three: The Windows Culture

From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureOne application per serverThis model is pathetic. Mainframes can run more than one application at a time. So can UNIX machines. Windoze CAN run more than one application at a time, but the more apps you run simultaneously - the higher the risk of failure.This...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Operating systems, hardware, mainframe, Microsoft Windows, server, software, Microsoft Corp., United Parcel Service of America Inc., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-10-31

The 'real' cost of application outages

The 'real' cost of application outagesavailabilityDowntime costs will naturally depend on the business. I worked many years at NYSE, where downtime could cost millions. I used to maintain and run one of their most critical systems. Over 7 years, the total 'unavailable' time was less than 50 seconds.Now working in...

Tags: Mainframes, Manufacturing, Servers, outage, mainframe, application outage

Discussion threads 2008-10-29

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureOverbroadYou wrote:[The appliance computing culture's interactive] applications model drives almost everything, from processor and OS evolution to appropriate management structure - and even the conflicts with traditional business systems experts whose internal model of "automatic data processing" is broadly unrelated to the needs and...

Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Processors, business systems expert, appliance computing culture, mainframe, best practice, Windows PC

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

IBM: The mainframe is back

IBM: The mainframe is backMainframe decision makers...As long as IT departments are headed by baby boomers who are in bed with IBM, the z series will continue to exist and propogate. There are a number of old systems (re: COBOL) that still meet the business needs, and will continue...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeWhen everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.W.S. Gilbert, Gondoliers.So many managers. An employee without a management title will feel overlooked.Murph, you outline the functional groups for your organization based on the leader. That means the effectiveness of each one...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, disaster recovery, leader, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp., job, data-processing, mainframe

Discussion threads 2008-08-15