IT organizations must come to terms with SOA’s much more rigorous planning, testing, and management requirements
PSI officials pledge to indemnify customers against liability and expect a return to normalcy -- post-litigation -- with Big Blue.
Why Compuware’s application-lifecycle toolset helps set it apart from competitors
The move will likely have mixed impact on most CA customers, although mainframe shops should expect some benefits
If you have an AS/400 or iSeries, PowerTech Group wants you to update your security model—and a recent study suggests you should pay close attention
Fundamental Software has run smack up against Big Blue’s refusal to sanction 64-bit mainframe emulation
Even as IBM and Fundamental continue to wrangle, FLEX-ES shops are dwelling in a kind of limbo. First in a series.
The deal helps position Software AG as an ascendant SOA player in both North America and the EU
IBM last week unveiled two new System i servers for the SMB market
There’s plenty of buzz about server virtualization, but success is not assured.
A closer look at the challenges of virtualization technologies in a large-scale initiative.
Why don’t proponents of the "mainframe brain drain" hypothesis make similar claims about other costly technology niches?
IBM officials position CICS 3.2 as the no-brainer hub for an organization’s -- any organization’s -- service-oriented architecture.
Though StorHouse is principally a data warehousing system, its stronger value may be as a database archiving solution.
IBM officials are confident zIIP will take off -- once it’s had time to germinate in the minds of customers
Is what's good for IBM's System z sales efforts always good for independent mainframe technologists?
CA pushes Wily SOA Manager as a good prescription for treating application performance issues in SOA environments.
IBM hopes that DB2 9’s performance, manageability, and security enhancements will make it a must-upgrade release
IBM last week made a pair of notable moves on the business intelligence front
In practice, for some mainframe customers, Big Blue’s MSU technology dividend really does translate into significant cost savings.