TCO and ROI efforts can be misleading -- in part because they tend to over-generalize the needs of particular customers and apply them to the market as a whole.
At $250 million over five years, the projected savings are real and substantial -- and the PR benefits, especially for System z, are even more important.
There’s still plenty of life left in Big Blue’s midrange server line
SHARE recently announced a list of five disaster recovery and business continuity recommendations that it says all mainframe shops would do well to follow.
The reorganization could revitalize a System i business that is in need of a jumpstart, analysts say.
IBM’s acquisition of DataMirror’s technology will likely find its way into the company’s DB2 database
IBM wouldn’t just give mainframe capacity away, would it? The short answer is: yes, it would—and it has.
Can the combined will of Microsoft, Cisco, and EMC overcome the ingrained inertia of government bureaucracy?
China is fast rising up the rungs of the global outsourcing ladder.
IT can choose from a variety of techniques to reduce its mainframe software costs
The updated Systems Director could be a hot ticket for many System p and System i customers.
A new survey sheds light on the high cost of downtime, and reveals how IT departments are struggling to manage complex environments
A consortium of computing heavyweights gathered together last week to help keep the Green IT bandwagon going
Successful grid services from both IBM and Sun Microsystems offer proof that grid computing is alive and well in the enterprise
Brazil invests nearly one-third of its total IT spending in mainframe systems
With SEC matters behind it and new management at the helm, CA seems leaner, unencumbered, and ready to compete full-force.
Though the mainframe may be cheaper to power and cool, it’s software is significantly more expensive
Companies are on a collision course in the enterprise data warehouse space
New feature lets coders use static SQL for scenarios in which they might otherwise depend on dynamic SQL
IBM claims that its new System p p570 offers three times the performance of a comparable Superdome system from HP