Infrastructure


Big Blue Introduces 64-way Systems

IBM says its new iSeries i595 and pSeries p595 systems are the largest and most powerful non-mainframe systems it has ever delivered

Tiered Access: iSCSI for the Enterprise, Part 1

iSCSI isn't just for small data centers. To understand how iSCSI fits in your data center, we look at the four important tiers of servers. (Part 1 of 2)

IBM Touts Mainframe Resurgence

Big Iron was once again in vogue last week as IBM made a raft of new mainframe-related announcements

PeopleSoft Users Resigned to Oracle Takeover

Few users seem excited about PeopleSoft falling into Oracle’s hands—except those who use Oracle’s database software

Business Objects to Offer Single View of Mainframe Data Sources

Partnership with IBM gives BI users a single view of data stored in DB2, VSAM, and IMS sources

Big Blue Trumpets ARM With Help from Siebel

The ARM standard is designed to help simplify transaction performance monitoring for Web applications

SAS Puts a BI Spin on Time-Tested IT Management Practices

New product exploits scorecard analytics to present information in a way that’s intelligible to executive decision-makers.



Sun Issues Mixed Message on Linux

Sun may be on a comeback, but its inability to articulate a Linux vision that’s all things to all people could continue to dog it

BMC Brings IMS Into the SmartDBA Fold

The latest SmartDBA tool lets DBAs manage IMS from the same console they use for Oracle or DB2

Standards Finally Emerge for Data Center Temperatures

A set of guidelines from an industry-leading organization finally put numbers and measurement techniques to the question—how hot is too hot?

IBM Delivers Next-Generation DB2 8.2 Database

Big Blue also discloses plans to integrate its DB2 and Informix Dynamix Server product lines in future versions of both products

Big Blue Opens Up BladeCenter

IBM’s move could drive down the cost of entry for many potential adopters—and stimulate additional sales for BladeCenter

Q&A: Itanium – Succeeding Where Brute Force Alone Isn’t Enough

A cooler, more flexible, and more powerful Itanium design may yet succeed where brute force alone hasn’t been enough

For Online VSAM Backup, BMC Came First, Company Says

Controversy highlights the way an ambitious Big Blue competes with many of its long-time partners

Linux World Recap

Novell, Red Hat, Sun make waves

Meet the Other Linux Mainframe: Unisys' ES7000

Freshly certified for Linux, Unisys’ ES7000 supports mainframe-like features such as dynamic partitioning

CA, IBM Moving Databases Open Source

Computer Associates positions open source Ingres as a natural for Big Iron Linux; IBM's Cloudscape will become Apache's Derby

CICS: Lynchpin of the Next-Gen Data Center

IBM releases two new and three updated CICS tools

Disaster Recovery: Balancing Performance and Availability

Financial services giant finds happy medium between performance and availability with Big Blue’s new DR service for zSeries

Database, BI Solutions Drive Grid Growth in the Enterprise

Grid computing finds enterprise killer apps