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NEW BLOG -- The Ongoing Evolution of System Software in the Cloud IT organizations are wrestling with more complexity than ever. It wasn’t supposed to be that way, but with the advent of virtualization and cloud computing there are not only more application workloads per physical machine to manage, those workloads are being distributed through more tiers of ... Read more > Not All Data Analytics Appliances Are Created Equal With more information being accessible than ever, there is obviously a lot more interest these days in mining large amounts information to create additional business value. The issue that many organizations are wrestling with today is determining the most cost-effective platform to achieve that goal... Read more > Lowering the Total Cost of Smarter Computing When it comes to cloud computing the first thing that IT organizations need to realize is that not all application workloads are created equal, which by extension means that neither are all clouds.
Speaking at a recent IBM Smarter Computing Executive Forum in New York, Tom Rosamilia, IBM General Ma... Read more > Identifying Patterns of Application Dependencies While most organizations these days are interested in modernizing existing legacy applications to one degree or another, there’s always a fair amount of unspoken dread about taking on such a project. The reason for this is simple; the older an application is, the more interdependencies it has.... Read more > COBOL: Dead Language Rising They say COBOL is a dead language that ranks right up there with Latin in terms of its contribution to human development. But unlike Latin, applications based on COBOL are not only used every day to provide some of the most mission-critical applications in the business world, it’s also due for... Read more > Teaching an Old Database New Tricks They say you can’t teach a dog, never mind a database, new tricks. But in an IBM webcast that can be found here, Bob Magid, IMS Tools Architect, makes it clear that the venerable IMS hierarchical database from IBM is an exception.
While IMS itself is several decades old, IBM has been moderniz... Read more > Reducing the Total Cost of Enterprise IT The total cost of managing IT has been a top of mind issue for most organizations ever since the economy took a nose dive. Given the fact that the cost of labor remains one of the highest components of the IT budget, it’s only natural that organizations would want to focus on how to contain th... Read more > The Rise of Nimble Application Development Teams The days of the single-purpose application developer who is conversant in only one primary language are numbered. In their place we’re witnessing the rise of more nimble teams of developers that are leveraging integrated development environments (IDE) based on Eclipse to quickly move from proj... Read more > Application Workloads: The New Center of the IT Universe As more IT organizations begin to better understand the value of bringing their mainframe and distributed computing systems together under a common management framework, the next logical step in the process becomes finding a way to manage the workloads that need to run in those environments.
After ... Read more > Regaining IT Control There’s a war on to regain control of enterprise IT systems that goes well beyond any single platform. The reality of enterprise IT today is that there are hundreds, even thousands, of virtual and physical systems that IT organizations have no hope of effectively managing using their existing ... Read more > The Rise of Enterprise Data Management Once an organization starts to think about data as an asset that needs to be carefully managed a profound change occurs in the way that organization thinks about how IT should be managed.
Rather than having IT perceived as a necessary burden, many IT organizations are elevating their strategic role... Read more > Scaling Databases in the Cloud Era While the fundamental principles of cloud computing are getting better understood with each passing day, one of the more subtle nuances that is not as readily appreciated is the definition of elasticity as it relates to cloud computing.
In theory, a cloud computing service should be able to dynamic... Read more > Closing the Historic Business and IT Divide The historic divide between IT and the business isn’t rooted in cultural issues as much as most people tend to think. In reality, most IT people are conscious of the needs of the business and business people are more than well aware of the crucial role that IT plays these days in every busines... Read more > IBM Establishes Performance Record for SAP Banking At a time when financial organizations are increasingly looking at replacing custom applications with packaged applications that allow them to more easily comply with any number of new regulations, the performance of those packaged applications on various hardware platforms has become a subject of d... Read more > Why do I Need $75k Mainframe? With a starting price of $75,000 a lot of IT professionals have a hard time believing that anything in the way of a useful workload can be run on a z114 mainframe. After all, many IT organizations are used to paying multiple times that amount for a mainframe.
But Scott Carlson, manager of System z ... Read more > Sizing Up X86 Servers versus the z114 Mainframe For as long as anyone can remember in the IT industry there has been a religious war between proponents of mainframe and distributed computing systems. Both sides insist that their approaches are less expensive, which is an argument that has been hard to quantify because it really comes down to what... Read more > IBM Eases Oracle Migration Path There’s a general assumption that when Oracle customers are talking about migration they are generally referring to swapping out a server based on a Sparc or HP PA-RISC processor for a server based on Power Series processors from IBM.
While that certainly happens with a fair amount of frequen... Read more > The New Rules for Business When it comes to IT these days, the two most important attributes that organizations are looking for are agility and flexibility. Unfortunately, these are two attributes that mainframes have not particularly been well known for. But with the advent of a new generation of tools for managing business ... Read more > Expanding the Universe of Mainframe Talent via the Cloud One of the arguments you hear about why IT organizations should give up on mainframe computing is that there will be a significant shortage of IT professionals with the skills needed to manage the platform. That’s a valid concern given the simple fact that the IBM mainframe community is greyin... Read more > Putting MOM in Charge of the Internet of Things The latest version of WebSphere MQ Series can now process over 1 million messages per second. You might naturally wonder what type of IT requirements would generate the need for such capabilities. Well, it turns out that as the Internet of Things continues to expand at a considerable rate the volume... Read more > Mobile Computing Meets the Mainframe No conversation about application modernization is complete without some discussion concerning mobile computing. When it comes to extending the value of IT investments, one of the biggest challenges that IT organizations face is how to make them accessible to users of devices such as smartphones and... Read more > Extending the Value of Mainframe Investments Given the simple fact that mainframe applications are a strategic asset in most organizations, providing access to those applications is a strategic business imperative. Unfortunately, that’s been one of those many IT things that have been easier said than done over the years.
With the releas... Read more > The Pressing Need for Smarter Systems Management With the rise of hybrid computing environments that will soon span multiple cloud computing platforms and classes of virtual machines, there’s no doubt that IT is becoming increasingly complex to manage.
Unfortunately, most companies can’t afford to keep throwing administrators at the I... Read more > The Rising Storage Complexity Challenge With each passing day the management of enterprise storage gets more complex. Not only is the sheer volume of data that needs to be managed increasing exponentially, the number of applications trying to access all that data is increasing thanks to the advent of virtual servers.
As that data flows a... Read more > A False Sense of Security Mainframes can easily lull an IT organization into a false sense of security. After all, mainframes are widely regarded as the most secure platform in the enterprise.
But the mainframe is also the most tempting target in the enterprise because it’s the mainframe that generally houses the most... Read more > Getting Mobile Computing Applications Down to Business While there is a lot of mobile computing momentum these days, most of the applications that are being delivered on these platforms are generally aimed at consumers or people just looking for a few quick moments of entertainment.
But as mobile computing devices continue to proliferate they are incre... Read more > The Revenge of the Hierarchical Database More years back than anyone cares to remember, there was a titanic struggle over the future of data management between hierarchical and relational databases technologies. By and large relational databases won this war, resulting in hierarchical databases such as IMS being relegated to application sc... Read more > Making Encryption Easier to Manage across Multiple Platforms When it comes to security, encryption on a mainframe is about as good as things can possibly get with the possibility of one exception: extending mainframe encryption out to distributed computing systems.
That’s precisely what Voltage Security, an IBM business partner and provider of encrypti... Read more > Windows Becomes a Member of the Extended Mainframe Family There are still more than a few folks out there that think that when it comes to mainframes the end goal is still shift as many applications as possible onto Windows server platforms that are perceived to be less expensive.
In reality, however, sophisticated IT organizations know that various compu... Read more > The Art of Managing Multiple Application Workloads Many IT organizations that already have a mainframe in place are discovering that, with IBM making it possible to easily run Unix, Linux, and Windows workloads on the mainframe alongside traditional transaction processing workloads, they can substantially reduce costs.
The fees that most mainframe ... Read more > Looking at the Mainframe with a New Set of Eyes in 2012 Now that most IT organizations are back in the IT groove following the holiday break, many are starting to rethink their overall approach to enterprise IT.
With the advent of cloud computing, it’s starting to look like the 12 months ahead will be a time of enterprise IT renewal, especially wh... Read more > Mainframes: The Ultimate Insider Threat Target While the mainframe has always been the most secure major platform when it comes to mitigating external threats, mainframe systems are still subject to the same internal threat issues as any other platform. In fact, the internal threat issue should be a much bigger concern for mainframe computing en... Read more > Bringing IT All Together There’s no doubt at this juncture about the benefits that are to be gained by bringing together mainframe and distributed computing systems under a common management framework.
But like most things in enterprise IT, making that actually happen is one of those things that is a lot easier said ... Read more > The Mainframe Youth Movement - Part II As previously noted, IBM has been trying to get younger people to be excited about working on the mainframe platform, largely because the vast majority of the people working on these systems today are over 50.
Much of the focus of that effort is currently on application development. But IBM is also... Read more > The IBM Mainframe Youth Movement - Part I There’s a popular perception that the mainframe as a platform doesn’t tend to attract the interest of the best and the brightest graduating from our colleges and universities. As is often the case, perception eventually becomes reality, which is one of the reasons that IBM concedes that ... Read more > Scaling New Virtualization Heights Anybody who has been around a virtual server environment for more than a few hours comes away with an appreciation for how rapidly virtual machines are being provisioned.
While there’s still a lot of debate over just how efficient these virtual machines are being managed, there’s no dou... Read more > Cloud Management Owes Debt to Pioneering Mainframe Technologies By now it’s pretty clear that there are a number of approaches to cloud computing that IT organizations are going to need to master. Some organizations may lean more towards private cloud computing versus public cloud computing services, but fundamentally IT organizations will be managing the ... Read more > Getting a Jumpstart on Cloud Computing Cloud computing and the whole notion of managing IT as a true service are so closely linked as to be almost indistinguishable.
While it’s true that cloud computing as we know it today is an outgrowth of virtualization, the definition of cloud computing as put forward by the National Institute... Read more > Cleaning Up the Enterprise Application Mess When it comes to managing IT there’s obviously a lot of well documented discontent that largely focuses on the total cost of operating an IT environment. With over 75 percent of the IT budget dedicated to keeping existing systems up and running, and when 85 percent of the time those systems ar... Read more > The Rise of Mission-Critical BI For the past three decades or more, business intelligence has pretty much been little more than one of several ancillary applications in the enterprise. But as the role of analytics continues to become more important within the scheme of any number of business processes, business intelligence applic... Read more > How to Double the Capacity of Your IT Systems It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given the current state of the economy that many IT organizations are between the proverbial rock and the hard place. IT budgets are flat, and yet the amount of data and the number of applications they need to support keep expanding.
But Doug Brown, vic... Read more > Balancing the Management of Structured and Unstructured Data One of things that has corporations of all sizes pretty excited these days is the ability to store, manage, and analyze large amounts of data using X86 servers and inexpensive storage.
The way this most commonly manifests itself in the enterprise is in the form of MapReduce being used to access the... Read more > A Federated World of Transactions in the Cloud Almost every day there is a new service being launched in the cloud to process transactions associated with one business process or another.
In fact, one of the latest is a Configure, Price and Quote cloud computing service that IBM developed as part of its Smarter Commerce initiative around softwa... Read more > Getting Smarter about Workload Management The simple fact of the matter is that enterprise IT has become too complex to effectively manage. We live in an IT age where the amount of data and systems required to support a business are beginning to spiral out of control. As a result, the cost of labor associated with managing all that informat... Read more > Modernizing Mainframe Application Development If there is one attribute that people generally associate with mainframes it’s the green screen that defines all the character-based applications that have been developed for the mainframe over the last 40 years.
But with the availability of IBM Rational Developer for System z 8.0, which is b... Read more > Exposing the Hidden Costs of Enterprise IT There’s a lot that goes into determining the total cost of IT, but one of the more insidious elements is the cost of ongoing support licenses. All too often, the IT organization doesn’t take this issue into account, so somebody in the finance department just keeps paying these bills with... Read more > The Linux Fear Factor Change is always unsettling so as Linux continues to gain momentum on the mainframe there are more than a few mainframe specialists that are feeling threatened. They worry that somehow the rise of Linux threatens the role of z/OS on the mainframe, which by extension puts their jobs in jeopardy.
In ... Read more > The March towards Federated Business Process Management Over 75 percent of the business logic that corporations run on today is being executed on mainframes. That logic supports roughly 30 billion transactions per day, valued at over $1 trillion per week. So it should not be all that surprising to discover that for a lot of companies the mainframe is at ... Read more > Moving Beyond Virtualization Too many IT organizations today seem to equate virtualization with cloud computing. In reality, however, virtualization is mostly about increasing utilization rates across shared IT infrastructure. Cloud computing takes IT management much further in that applications can not only dynamically scale, ... Read more > IBM Mainframes Lay Claim to the Cloud If IBM ever made a serious mistake with the mainframe, Bill Reeder, worldwide optimization and System z leader for IBM, says it may have been failing to apply a cloud computing moniker to the platform when it was first invented over 40 years ago.
Just about anybody who has any mainframe experience ... Read more > The Changing Nature of Enterprise IT Enterprise IT as we once knew it is rapidly evolving. Where once there were a lot of isolated platforms running disparate applications that were tangentially connected to one another, modern enterprise IT need to consist of applications and systems that are tightly coupled with one another.
In fact... Read more > The Virtualization Management Challenge The trouble with distributed computing systems has always been the total cost associated with managing the environments. To deal with that issue in recent years we’ve seen a wave of server consolidation. Some of that consolidation involved moving more application workloads to the mainframe, bu... Read more > Free “Fit for Purpose” Workshops Open IT Minds and Doors As IBM begins to more aggressively promote the notion of Hybrid Computing across multiple server platforms, the company has decided to make its considerable resources more easily available to customers.
To that end, IBM has begun conducting a series of “Fit for Purpose” workshops at cus... Read more > The Value of Application Integration To one degree or another, just about every IT organization that has access to a mainframe has made some effort to integrate those systems with applications running on any number of disparate platforms.
What’s changing with the advent of the zEnterprise platform is that IBM is taking that noti... Read more > Bringing the Clouds Together One of the bigger challenges with cloud computing is figuring out how to manage all the systems that make up an extended cloud computing environment. For example, while many IT organizations will opt to build a private cloud based on their mainframes, those systems will need to be integrated with an... Read more > The Art of Shared Storage As IT organizations move to consolidate servers and embrace virtualization, many are looking more closely at the challenges associated with shared storage.
There’s obviously a lot that can go wrong when multiple applications and databases need to access the same physical storage. This is an i... Read more > Operational BI Gets Simpler on the Mainframe One of the issues that IT organizations routinely deal with is requests from the business to analyze a particular set of data. The challenge more often than not, from an IT perspective, is that the data that business needs to analyze resides on a mainframe, while the data warehouse resides on a Unix... Read more > Getting the Most Out of Your DBAs Database administrators are under more pressure than ever. Not only is the volume of data that needs to be managed growing exponentially, the performance requirements associated with those databases are becoming more demanding.
This creates a major challenge for IT organizations because they can... Read more > Virtualization Performance Matters As IT organizations gain more experience with virtualization they are starting to discover that not all virtual machines are created equal. They are also learning that the way different server environments actually manage virtual machines can have a major impact on the performance of their virtualiz... Read more > Giving Developers the Tools They Really Need While the whole “fit for purpose” concept that IBM is promoting as part of its Smarter Computing strategy makes a lot of economic sense, application developers are often wary of the complexity associated with building, deploying, and managing applications that run on multiple platforms.
... Read more > Seeing the IT Forest through the Trees When it comes to figuring out what the best IT strategy to follow might actually be, a lot of IT professionals rely on intuition and their personal experience. But more often than not there’s a high probability that the assumptions that are inherent in taking that approach are going to lead to... Read more > Meeting the Data Requirements of Tomorrow Starting Today Traditionally data management has required a great deal of manual finesse, an issue that is becoming a lot more problematic for a lot more database administrators (DBAs) as the amount of data that needs to managed continues to exponentially grow.
To help IT organizations deal with this issue, IBM i... Read more > Getting Smarter about Analytics Companies of all sizes are investing more in analytics as part of a general effort to gain more insight into business trends. The only question from an IT perspective is what is the best way to provide that capability?
Following its recent acquisition of Netezza, IBM recently revamped its entire an... Read more > Putting an End to the Vicious IT Cycle Just about every IT leader in the world is coping with the same scenario in one form or another. The number of physical and virtual servers that need to be managed continues to grow while the actual amount of data on those systems is growing even exponentially faster. At the same time, the size of t... Read more > How to Make Cloud Computing Truly Secure There is almost no survey about cloud computing that doesn’t come back with security being the top concern. The simple fact of the matter is that cloud computing brings with it a shared-everything IT architecture that is likely to be abused at multiple levels. For that reason alone, a lot of I... Read more > The Real Definition of Cloud Computing There’s a lot of discussion these days about what ultimately defines cloud computing with a lot of emphasis being placed on attributes such as elasticity, scalability, and manageability.
But for Frank Degilio, an IBM distinguished engineer and chief architect for cloud computing, cloud comput... Read more > The End of the Platform Wars and the Rise of Hybrid Computing For more years than anyone cares to admit, platform wars have dominated the enterprise IT agenda. Unfortunately, battles over the merits of one platform over another tend to ignore application realities. The simple fact of the matter is that there are different types of application workloads that ru... Read more > Healthcare Systems That Are Just What the IT Doctor Ordered Great changes are taking place all across the healthcare landscape with regard to the use of IT. But whether it involves something comparatively simple as storing electronic healthcare records (EHR) or as complex as processing transactions across a distributed healthcare network, the core issue that... Read more > Making the Case for Server Consolidation Traditionally most people are conditioned to think that the larger something is the more inefficient it is. For example, a large car by definition generally consumes more energy than a smaller car. But in land of enterprise IT, the exact opposite is generally the case. The bigger the system is, the ... Read more > Putting a Little Mainframe SaaS in the Cloud When most IT professionals think about building out a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environment, mainframes are not always the first platform to spring to mind.
But as IT architects begin to better comprehend the elastic nature of cloud computing, more of them are starting to see the mainframe as id... Read more > Running Unix Apps on an IBM Mainframe There's a lot of consternation in the Unix community these days. Not only does it appear that the number of Unix servers being sold is declining, there is a lot of warfare between vendors, which ultimately gives potential customers cause for pause.
The immediate effect of all this contention is th... Read more > The Best of Both IT Worlds The laws of physics are immutable. When it comes to distributed computing that’s a concept that a lot of IT architects seem to struggle with. While there is no doubt that a single X86 server is very affordable, attempting to orchestrate applications across multiple servers can not only adverse... Read more > The Quest to Reduce IT Operating Expenses Ever since the downturn in the economy, IT efforts to reduce operating expenses have been redoubled multiple times over. A big part of solving that equation is finding ways to be smarter about managing application workloads with an eye towards reducing the amount of IT infrastructure that needs to b... Read more > Creating a New Linux Ecosystem With the recent delivery of the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (ZBX) using X86 systems that run Linux, IBM has created a new ecosystem from deploying and managing Linux applications.
Within a zEnterprise environment that now includes X86 servers alongside Power Series servers and IBM mainframes,... Read more > Adventures in SUSE Linux When it comes to new technologies, there is generally a variety of types of IT organizations that typically range from conservative to those that aggressively embrace the new technologies.
For the most part mainframe sites have been typically classified as conservative, but with the advent of Linux... Read more > The Growing Importance of Transaction History There is an old saying that reminds us that those that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. That saying not only applies to major political events, it also applies to transaction processing.
All too often IT organizations are blind to the root cause of a specific transaction processin... Read more > A Great Enterprise IT Leap Forward Every time the subject of reliability comes up you see proponents of distributed computing systems bristle. For years, their approach to reliability and availability has been to throw duplicate hardware at the problem regardless of the costs associated with having systems standing idle waiting for s... Read more > The Cost of IT Peace of Mind One of the issues that IT organizations quickly discover with X86-based servers is that the availability of those servers can be a tricky thing to manage. Applications on these servers typically run in isolation, so the failure of any one component on that system can take down the whole application.... Read more > Business Service Management: A New Order of All Things IT When people debate the divide that usually exists between IT and the rest of the business, they are generally talking about the difference between how IT is managed versus consumed.
Most IT departments think in terms of managing applications and the systems they run. Business executives tend to thi... Read more > The Coming Wave of Water-Cooled Systems As data centers struggle with the amount of energy that is being created by rack after rack of servers, a once familiar approach to cooling these environments is starting to make a comeback.
When CMOS processors began to be more commonly used in the 1980s, this class of chip technology allowed serv... Read more > Building an Information Supply Chain One of the major shortcomings of IT these days is that the people that manage IT tend to think in terms of the applications and the systems they run on, and not what the business is actually trying to accomplish.
That’s understandable given the historic divide between IT and the business. But... Read more > Opening a New Mainframe Management Ecosystem When it comes to IT management, the watchword of the day is convergence. As part of an industry-wide effort to reduce the cost of managing IT, vendors are opening their management frameworks to each other to bring unprecedented amounts of interoperability and choice to customers.
The latest example... Read more > Making the Mainframe More Accessible IT organizations that have wanted to make investments in mainframes have longed been troubled by concerns that there is a shortage of skilled talent to manage these environments. To its credit IBM has been investing heavily in increasing the available mainframe talent pool to help avert any potentia... Read more > How to Cast a Wider Transaction Net One of the primary reasons we see so many distributed computing systems strewn across the enterprise is because X86 servers were always a lot easier to set up and a whole lot less expensive to acquire.
This substantially lowered the risks associated with launching a new application to support a bus... Read more > The Pursuit of the One Truth Far too many IT organizations these days are wrestling with one form of enterprise application sprawl that ultimately does more to inhibit rather than enable the business.
The business issue that stems from this sprawl is the various applications all typically contain information about the customer... Read more > Modern ALM Puts an Emphasis on Collaboration Now that the worlds of mainframe and distributed computing are starting to converge IT organizations need to start thinking about how they are going to manage application workloads across those environments.
The issue is that as applications start to consist of workloads running on multiple platfor... Read more > Mastering the New Mainframe There’s a lot of concern these days among customer about being able to find enough people with the skills needed to manage mainframe environment, which is an issue that IBM has been trying to address through a variety of academic initiatives that are designed to increase the size of the overal... Read more > zEnterprise 114: Making Mainframes More Affordable One of the challenges that mainframe advocates have routinely had to deal with is the cost of acquisition associated with the platform. While the mainframe has always enjoyed critical advantages in terms of giving customers a lower total cost of ownership compared with rival platforms, it usually re... Read more > Analytic Applications Come of Age on the Mainframe There’s obviously a lot of interest in almost anything to do with business analytics these days. In the wake of the economic downturn, business leaders are looking for more certainty than ever by better analyzing the trove of information stored in their IT systems.
While the desire to analyze... Read more > Mainframes at the Center of BPM Universe As IT organizations look to become more relevant to the business many are shifting their focus from managing IT applications and systems to managing the business processes enabled by IT.
As that shift continues to occur, many IT organizations are rediscovering the critical role that mainframes play... Read more > RHEL Grows More Mature on the Mainframe While Red Hat and IBM have been partners for years, it is only with the release of the latest edition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that the most widely used Linux distribution has begun to really exploit the rich management fabric of the mainframe.
RHEL 6.1, among many other new features, pro... Read more > Consolidating Transaction Processing Systems For a lot of IT organizations, the idea that they might want to consolidate transaction processing systems one day seemed, at best, a bit remote. After all, the number of transactions that needed to be processed just kept growing, and it seemed unlikely that hardware would ever advance to the point ... Read more > Back to the Mainframe Future While IBM has much to be proud of in its 100 year history, nothing stands out in terms of lasting success than the mainframe. Mainframes trace their lineage back to vacuum-based systems that IBM developed in 1952. There was time there for a little while back in the 1980s when mainframes were thought... Read more > A Penny Server Wise One of the reasons that there are so many distributed systems out there is that the price tag of an X86 server appears to be fairly low. For a lot of IT organizations, that made acquisition of an X86 server an affordable option.
Of course, if IT organizations needed only one X86 server, there would... Read more > Peace of Compliance Mind The compliance issues that most IT organizations wind up wrestling with generally stem from the same issues that frequently bedevil efforts to secure IT systems. The more data there is lying around, the more likely it is that something bad will happen. And yet, time and again IT organizations routin... Read more > The Case for BI Consolidation The good news is that business intelligence and associated analytic applications have never been more popular. In fact, a recent survey of over 3,000 CIOs conducted by IBM found that business intelligence and analytic applications continue to be the top item on the IT agenda at most companies. The b... Read more > From Terabytes to Petabytes The amount of data that IT organizations will soon find themselves processing is about to grow sharply. That may be a difficult concept for many IT organizations to digest given their troubles just keeping pace with the amount of data they currently have to process, manage, and store.
But as demand... Read more > Hierarchical Databases Head for the Clouds As awareness of cloud computing issues related to performance grows, an interesting phenomenon is starting to take place in the form of renewed interest in hierarchical databases.
According to Beverly Tyrrell, IBM director of IMS Software, IBM has been beta testing version 12 of the venerable IMS d... Read more > The Real Cost of Over Provisioning When a lot of IT folks first take a look at the zEnterprise mainframe all they really see is a new mainframe packaged up with some blade servers. At first glance, there is a tendency to dismiss the zEnterprise mainframe architecture as just another exercise in the creative bundling of system hardwar... Read more > Bringing DevOps Back Under Control As the diversity of the application environment continues to increase, managing the deployment of enterprise applications is getting more complex.
While it makes economic sense to optimize the running of an application on the platform that is best designed to handle its particular workload, the man... Read more >
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