Some mainframers think IBM’s $100 million could be better spent addressing training, licensing, and other long-standing Big-Iron pain points
IBM is putting its money where its mouth is—spending $100 million over the next five years to make its mainframe systems easier to use
Two companies have teamed up to simplify creating voice-enabled applications
Two mainframe number-crunching mainstays make their bids for broad BI dominance
IBM is touting a more abstract kind of workload—the mainframe-as-service-enabled hub
What does ISS give IBM—and is it worth the $1.6 billion Big Blue paid for it? That depends, analysts say.
Vista includes a few amenities to which IT pros should warm, but is it enough to justify deploying it in corporate environments?
Are a pair of recent Intel-to-System z defections a harbinger of what’s to come?
Customers are still betting their businesses on IMS and other “legacy” datastores—and mainframe ISVs are more than happy to oblige.
With Intel finally righting itself after years of floundering in AMD’s wake, why did IBM pick now to take the Opteron plunge?
Microsoft’s absence in new initiatives troubles industry watchers
DataMirror last week trumpeted what it describes as “significant” performance improvements in the latest version of its Transformation Server for z/OS
By putting $4.5 billion of its money where its mouth is, has HP finally put the lie to the canard that it isn’t serious about software?
Mainframe change management in an age of compliance is a very different beast
zLinux or Big Iron J2EE workloads perform better and are cheaper than their RISC- or Intel-based alternatives
How many new tricks can you teach an old pre-relational database? Plenty, especially if customers are still actively banking on it.
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.