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
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
Seagull Software’s Andre Den Haan isn’t a knee-jerk contrarian—but he also isn’t afraid to call it as he sees it
Oracle enters the already-crowded enterprise search market, as IT moves to supply fast but secure search results.
IBM's vision puts the mainframe in the center of a distributed application ecosystem that consumes data served up by zIIP workload engines
What’s not to like about z/Linux and other cheap mainframe workloads?
Tardy SCO denied in bid to depose industry heavyweights Intel and Oracle
Organizations do successfully manage people and process changes en route to large scale enterprise transformations. Here’s how.
Even companies that have embraced next-generation mainframe workloads often give short shrift to the question of training. What gives?
How you may be troubleshooting application performance and reliability issues in the loosely coupled application-scape of the future
Some mainframe pros say that next-generation workloads (such as zLinux and J2EE) point the way to false destinies
Organizations may see service-enablement, and the next generation of SLAs, as a chance to improve the responsiveness and dynamism of their IT departments.
New processor could reduce the cost of exposing Big Iron DB2 to CRM, ERP, and other workloads
In spite of their differences, mainframers seem to agree on a few important points, although even these may surprise you.
In light of IBM’s purchase last year of Ascential, SAP and Oracle could be contemplating blockbuster data integration acquisitions of their own.
What can we expect from IBM’s zSeries team in 2006? If history is any indication, it could be an eventful year.
From acquisitions to outsourcing, it was a very busy year