Customers are still betting their businesses on IMS and other “legacy” datastores—and mainframe ISVs are more than happy to oblige.
More and more code jockeys are embracing software testing as a means to accelerate development and improve overall quality levels
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.
The cost of distributed complexity—which is also measured in air conditioned BTUs and kilowatts per hour—is about to get even more expensive
Is ITIL tailor-made for the Six Sigma Generation?
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
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.