The SIAC now identifies exact operational functions of the COBOL programs running in its S/390 environment. Using InCert Examiner, SIAC gains the understanding needed to test the "right stuff" and eliminate the uncertainty of guesswork.
Public monorails and hovercrafts may be a thing of the future, but for data moving and sharing, the future is now. Fibre channel has blazed its way to the top of next-level networking technologies.
Database marketing firm Acxiom Corporation relies on SyncSort Inc.'s PipeSort to help slash the company's MVS elapsed time by 40 percent.
In the chicken-and-egg world of vendor marketing and user need, clustering has achieved "hot topic" status. Depending on individual needs, a variety of vendors manufacture appliances to target specific points of failure. To be effective, however, the solutions you choose must provide simultaneous coverage for multiple points of failure.
A counter view of today's Fibre Channel frenzy.
The driving force behind implementing centralized management systems is their cost-effective management of networked systems. For most IT organizations, centralized management systems are the only way of approaching the same level of reliabilty, availability and control that has been available with mainframe environments of the past.
Whether you choose Data Link Switching or Enterprise Extender, adopting an SNA over IP solution offers you the chance to pump up your e-business strategy, reduce the costs of your IT department and increase the profits of your business units.
High availability and disaster recovery are two mutually exclusive categories with one architecture. The challenge is to first understand what you need, and find the architecture that best fills those needs.
By choosing reliable products, addressing people issues and implementing processes that reflect the best practices, businesses can get the high levels of availability they need to remain competitive.
The rocky terrain of recovery is difficult to navigate. Determining the time it takes to drive through the recovery process and identifying alternate routes can help make your ride a little smoother.
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) can by maintained by building a well-designed network that integrates multiple protocols and services over an IP infrastructure. Network managers must use tools that are designed for a multi-protocol, integrated services environment to establish accurate response times and to maintain SLAs.
In the conclusion of his two-part article, third-party, capacity planning offerings, the cost-effectiveness of distributed computing and controlling "service levels" of projected workloads are explored.
In the beginning, there was Ethernet. As users exploited dedicated bandwidth, the links between switches became overloaded, and you can't wait for Gigabit standards. An ATM intelligent infrastructure can address the routing, management and distribution process with today's networks.
While integrating distributed applications in a complex environment, it is important to not only learn the history of the process, but to understand the importance of service management, scalability and compatability.
Clients, vendors and employees look for fast and reliable remote access to corporations' networks and files while out of the office.
A Northern California health maintenance organization creates a clinical data repository to service its 2.5 million members on an MVS mainframe using DB2 and an asynchronous messaging processing paradigm.
What’s in store for the future of enterprise management? The focus for the new millennium will be on managing applications and higher-level services, with systems and networks viewed merely as components of the overall applications infrastructure.
By identifying the need for healthy workload management while in the early stages of enterprise resource planning, corporations can determine their return on investment for migrating to an ERP system.
At a time when data centers can’t afford the time to manage and maximize a new environment where TCP/IP networks are integrated with standard enterprise-server functionality, companies must determine the network’s current needs as well as future growth, then select a management tool to aid during migration.
The current status of each organization (i.e., where it is in the adoption cycle) will determine which computing model - mainframe-centric, client/server or universal client - will be used. Some companies may have a need for a mixture of all three environments within their corporate IT departments. Find out where you fit and what you need to know.