How many new tricks can you teach an old pre-relational database? Plenty, especially if customers are still actively banking on it.
On-demand application suite offers big benefits for a small company
Is ITIL tailor-made for the Six Sigma Generation?
The cost of distributed complexity—which is also measured in air conditioned BTUs and kilowatts per hour—is about to get even more expensive
The mainframe is entrenched for the long haul, respondents say
A growing number of mainframe pros are trying to educate their colleagues and C-level executives about the business case for Big Iron.
A future of reusable services got a step closer to reality last week when IBM announced its new SOA Business Catalog
With the revitalization of the mainframe and the rise of zNextGen, SHARE itself has been revitalized. (First in a series)
What Big Iron shops of all sizes have to say about the future of the mainframe is encouraging—to say the least
CA says it has developed a change management product family the integrated whole of which is much greater than the sum of its parts
Big Blue announced initiatives to help programmers and ISVs get that old-time mainframe religion
Successful service-enablement requires a high degree of visibility into an organization’s IT inner workings.
For a starting price of $100,000, customers get Big Iron hardware and software along with specialty processor engines
The key to getting the most from legacy systems and not being tied down by them may be business automation software.
How well does Big Blue's highly virtualized Intel server vision compare with mature implementations available on System z or RISC/Unix?
Life as an independent contractor isn't all it's cracked up to be
Industry watchers say we’ll soon see explosive interest in server virtualization
IT pros are surprisingly nuanced in their objections to, or support of, offshore outsourcing.
Some mainframe and minicomputer programming vets have embarked on a very different career path—as outsourcing services providers
The advance of grid computing will bring in new capabilities, cut costs dramatically, enable increasingly ambitious projects, and offer more advanced capabilities to customers. While the implementation details are different for each industry, some strategies are common to all. We explore three strategies.