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- 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...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Fun with IBM's Z10 numbers
- Fun with IBM's Z10 numbersI just don't believe the IBM numbersin terms of real-world workloads and comparing Linux-to-Linux implementations. Maybe if you are doing some kind of multi-dimensional modeling you might get some advantage from the z10, but for work-a-day web hosting?RE: Fun with IBM's Z10 numbersSo... we're looking at...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- IBM announces the Z10: Is the mainframe still relevant?
- IBM announces the Z10: Is the mainframe still relevant?z10 - Change of Ideology in EnterprisesI think the z10 is going to be the future winner, especially in the virtualization arena. The problem will be getting large corporations to "buy" in to the purchase. In the old days of...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
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- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Could excess power consumption finally do in the mainframe?
- Hewlett-Packard's John Pickett has it in for mainframes. In fact, he has been known to call them the SUVs of the computer industry, big pieces of gadgetry that are over-powered. As the Mainframe Alternative Program Manager in HP's ESS Marketing group, Pickett is responsible for evangelizing the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Swiss Manager Elite UIQ3-SE 2.00 (Mobile)
- Swiss Manager is a composite system utility, providing task management, file navigation, and system information services, all in one application. Swiss Manager Elite is the successor of the famous Swiss Manager Pro ("SMP"), the award-winning software by CellPhoneSoft, which has been considered as an essential addition to all UIQ3 devices....
- Software downloads 2009-07-03
- IBM win: University will invest in $12.4M green data center
- Get this, someone is actually making a capital investment in a new data center! And, a green one at that. We hear today that Syracuse University and New York State plan to use IBM to build a whopping 6,000-square-foot green data center that will use roughly 50...
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that Mainframe
- At the SHARE conference in Austin, Texas, the Birmingham, Alabama-based Mantissa Corporation unveiled z/VOS, a hypervisor that enables Windows desktops and servers to be virtualized on IBM mainframes. I don't generally like to blog about IBM technology on Tech Broiler because as an...
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- IBM System z10 Open Systems Adapter Ethernet Data Router
- The IBM Open Systems Adapter OSA is a family of integrated hardware features that enables direct connection between IBM System z10e hosts and clients on Local Area Networks LANs. The OSA provides a virtual interface to the LAN that may be shared by hundreds of host operating systems. The newest...
- White papers 2009-01-22
- 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...
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-29
- IBM Acquires Transitive
- Last week, I received a notice from IBM's PR company that IBM was going to acquire Transitive, that clever supplier of operating system and hardware virtualization technology. It's clearly a move to strengthen IBM's claim on being the premier supplier of systems for the next generation datacenter. ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10
- During last week's discussion of IBM's z10 numbers, one contributor claimed that it is both space and power efficient - so I suggested he compare the z10's numbers to those for Sun's project blackbox. Since I doubt he bothered, I've done it for all of us -and the results are...
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- DynamicOps self service management for virtual environments
- A few days ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Rich Bourdeau DynamicOps' VP Marketing, and learn about Virtual Resource Manager VRM and this spin-off from Credit Suisse. DynamicOps is the result of project to allow virtual resources to be easily configured and provisioned based upon the organization's policies...
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Fun with IBM's Z10 numbers
- As far as I'm concerned, when an organization buys an IBM mainframe to run Linux somebody should be fired - but not the DP guy who bought it: his boss: the non technical guy who approved it without carefully reviewing the alternatives. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- IBM targets HP's server beachhead
- In its latest volley in a tug-of-war between two tech giants, IBM said Monday that it will offer services free of charge to migrate HP server customers to its System z mainframes. The effort, announced just as HP CEO Mark Hurd was to kick off his analyst...
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Introduction to Hiperdispatch Management Mode With z101
- HiperDispatch was introduced with IBM's z10 server, and is available via PTFs on z/OS V1R7, z/OS V1R8, and z/OS V1R9. HiperDispatch was designed to minimize the z10 hardware performance degradation caused by processor cache misses, and maximize the amount of CPU processing power associated with any single logical processor. To...
- White papers 2008-09-10
- Performance, Agility, and Cost Savings: IBM SDK5 and SDK6 on System z
- The adoption of Java on mainframes continues to grow. As such, IBM has invested heavily in its SDK technology on System z. With SDK5 and SDK6, the IBM JVM was re-engineered, providing a significant improvement in performance, security, reliability, and serviceability. As a testament to the value of IBM's investment,...
- White papers 2008-08-01
- Customer-Managed Evolution
- With the IBM announcement of the new System z10, the economic, environmental, and performance advantages of FICON are clearer than ever. This webcast unveils an important new strategy for optimizing the cost, performance, and flexibility of System z technology investments called Customer Managed Evolution. This infrastructure-based service and technology solution...
- Webcasts 2008-07-24
- NiceAlarm v.1.6 UIQ3 (Mobile)
- NiceAlarm v.1.6 UIQ - superior Symbian alarm manager.Dear Customers,We are proud to present you UIQ version of the most advanced alarm application for Symbian smartphones. NiceAlarm combines unique customization options, high level of reliability and user friendly interface. You can try it out now for free!Check official web-site for additional...
- Software downloads 2008-06-30
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