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
IBM and Microsoft made significant data management-related announcements last week
With the revitalization of the mainframe and the rise of zNextGen, SHARE itself has been revitalized. (First in a series)
Far from expanding their use of that DBMS, analysts argue customers need to start planning their migrations now
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
We explore what factors are important when organizations choose their outsourcing partners. Price isn’t the primary consideration.
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
We explore why organizations choose to outsource, where they move it, their use of multiple vendors, and success factors in choosing a service provider
We explore what IT is outsourcing, how much it costs, and the length of outsourcing contracts.
How well does Big Blue's highly virtualized Intel server vision compare with mature implementations available on System z or RISC/Unix?
CA's new all-in-one DBMS administration console can manage distributed and mainframe databases. The price is right, too: it's free.
Industry watchers say we’ll soon see explosive interest in server virtualization
What IBM should do to prevent their BI market dominance
Some mainframe and minicomputer programming vets have embarked on a very different career path—as outsourcing services providers