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Mainframe modernization as the latest rage
With the economy beginning to improve, companies are crawling out of their bunkers and realizing they need new capabilities to compete in the post-recession world. Suddenly mainframe modernization is a...
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New Workloads for the zEnterprise
Even before the introduction of the z196 a year ago, IBM had been steadily promoting new mainframe workloads. With the introduction of the zEnterprise, consisting of a z196 and an attached zBX, the...
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Two Mainframe Career Futures
From a career standpoint, are these the best of times or the worst of times for mainframe people? If you read the front page of last Sunday’s Boston Globe, it looks terrible. If you listen to IBM, it...
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System z Application Modernization
People still complain about how they are held back by old green-screen mainframe applications. It’s not the underlying business logic or application performance they usually are complaining about—that...
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Winning the Talent War with the System z
The next frontier in the ongoing talent war, according to McKinsey, will be deep analytics, a critical weapon required to probe big data in the competition underpinning new waves of productivity,...
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Getting the Payback from System z Outsourcing
A survey from Compuware Corporation on attitudes of CIOs toward mainframe outsourcing showed a significant level of dissatisfaction with one or another aspect of mainframe outsourcing. Check out the...
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Next Generation zEnterprise Developers
Mainframe development keeps getting more complicated. The latest complication can be seen in Doug Balog’s reference to mobile and social business on the zEnterprise, reported by DancingDinosaur here a...
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A Maturity Model for the New Mainframe Normal
Last week Compuware introduced its new mainframe maturity model designed to address what is emerging as the new mainframe normal. DancingDinosaur played a central role in the creation of this model. A...
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How the 50 Year-Old Mainframe Remains Relevant The mainframe turns 50 years old this year and the many pundits and experts who predicted it would be long gone by now must be scratching their heads....
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The Next Generation of Mainframers
With seemingly every young person with any technology inclinations aiming to become the next WhatsApp and walk away with some of Facebook’s millions it is fair to wonder: Where is the next generation...
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IBM POWER8 CAPI for Efficient Top Performance
IBM’s Power Systems Power8 Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) is not for every IT shop running Power Systems. However, for those that aim to attach devices to their POWER8 systems over the...
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Mainframe Appeal Continues in 9th BMC Survey
With most of the over 1100 respondents (91%) reporting that the mainframe remains a viable long-term platform for them and a clear majority (60%) expecting to increase MIPS due to the normal growth of...
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Compuware Aims for Mainframe Literacy in CIOs
Many IT professionals, especially younger ones, are clueless about the mainframe. Chris O’Malley, president of the mainframe business at Compuware, has met CIOs who are versed in everything about IT...
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IBM zSystem for Social—Far From Forgotten at Edge2015
Dexter Doyle and Chris Gamin (z System Middleware) titled their session at Edge2015 IBM z Systems: The Forgotten Platform in Your Social Business. They were only half joking. As systems of engagement...
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IBM Continues Open Source Commitment with Apache Spark
If anyone believes IBM’s commitment to open source is a passing fad, forget it. IBM has invested billions in Linux, open Power through the Open Power Foundation, and more. Its latest is the...
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IBM LinuxONE and Open Mainframe Project Expand the z System
Meet the new IBM z System; called LinuxONE Emperor (named after the Emperor Penguin.) It is a z13 running only Linux. Check out the full announcement here. Courtesy of IBM, LinuxONE Emperor, the newest...
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IBM Continues to Bolster Bluemix PaaS
In the last 10 years the industry, led by IBM, has gotten remarkably better at enabling nearly coding-free development. This is important given how critical app development has become. Today it is...
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IBM LinuxONE Can Uberize x86-Based IT
Uberization—industry disruption caused by an unlikely competitor—emerged as a dominant concern of C-suite executives in a recently announced IBM-Institute of Business Value study. According to the...
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Making the IBM Mainframe Agile and Swift
Do you remember what the mainframe was like when you started on the mainframe career path? Today IBM blurs distinctions between the mainframe and distributed environments through Linux and Java as well...
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Exploiting the IBM z13 for Maximum Price/Performance Advantage
The z13 is the most powerful general purpose computer IBM has ever made. The key to capturing the maximum value from the z13, however, lies in how you plan, design, configure, and optimize your systems...
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