Applications


CA Announces Free DBMS Management Tool

CA's new all-in-one DBMS administration console can manage distributed and mainframe databases. The price is right, too: it's free.

2006: The Year of Serving Virtually

Industry watchers say we’ll soon see explosive interest in server virtualization

Why Microsoft and Oracle Want to Be Your One-Stop Shop for BI

What IBM should do to prevent their BI market dominance

Careers: IT Pros Sound Off on Offshore Outsourcing

IT pros are surprisingly nuanced in their objections to, or support of, offshore outsourcing.

Careers: IT Pros Now Outsourcing Service Providers

Some mainframe and minicomputer programming vets have embarked on a very different career path—as outsourcing services providers

Q&A: Straight Talk on Mainframe Futures

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

Enterprise Search: IT Faces the Google Phenomenon

Oracle enters the already-crowded enterprise search market, as IT moves to supply fast but secure search results.



Big Blue's z9-Centered Information Utopia

IBM's vision puts the mainframe in the center of a distributed application ecosystem that consumes data served up by zIIP workload engines

The Mainframe Capacity Conundrum: Getting Better All the Time

What’s not to like about z/Linux and other cheap mainframe workloads?

Courtroom Showdown: SCO Denied

Tardy SCO denied in bid to depose industry heavyweights Intel and Oracle

Business Process Success: Advice from an Expert

Organizations do successfully manage people and process changes en route to large scale enterprise transformations. Here’s how.

Training: Commitment to IT Pros Still Low

Even companies that have embraced next-generation mainframe workloads often give short shrift to the question of training. What gives?

Splunk Touts Troubleshooting Rx

How you may be troubleshooting application performance and reliability issues in the loosely coupled application-scape of the future

State of the Mainframe, Part II: The Capacity Conundrum

Some mainframe pros say that next-generation workloads (such as zLinux and J2EE) point the way to false destinies

SOA’s Impact on SLAs: Trouble Ahead

Organizations may see service-enablement, and the next generation of SLAs, as a chance to improve the responsiveness and dynamism of their IT departments.

IBM Tweaks DB2 Workload Pricing

New processor could reduce the cost of exposing Big Iron DB2 to CRM, ERP, and other workloads

State of the Mainframe (First in a Three-Part Series)

In spite of their differences, mainframers seem to agree on a few important points, although even these may surprise you.

Speculation Grows Over Acquisitions

In light of IBM’s purchase last year of Ascential, SAP and Oracle could be contemplating blockbuster data integration acquisitions of their own.

zSeries: Big Plans Ahead?

What can we expect from IBM’s zSeries team in 2006? If history is any indication, it could be an eventful year.

The Enterprise Year in Review

From acquisitions to outsourcing, it was a very busy year