IMS workloads are growing, and CA says the capabilities of its management tools are keeping pace, too
Users expecting an infusion of Ascential’s ETL expertise into DB2 may be disappointed
SAP last week expanded its ERP Cold War against Oracle, announcing partnerships with IBM and Microsoft
Some users are praising the synergies of a combined Oracle, PeopleSoft, and J.D. Edwards stack—but for others, skepticism about Project Fusion is still the order of the day.
IBM last week signed a $400 million contract to design a new on-demand IT infrastructure for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
There's a chance mainframe and Unix administrators will have to deal with the revamped SQL Server whether they want to or not
Big Blue hopes the latest release will entice fence-sitters
Companies that implement a centralized software-testing program report higher quality levels than companies that don’t
Phantom users and orphaned accounts are widespread in the distributed space, but things are even worse in the mainframe world
There’s a good chance many highly specialized capabilities will find their way into DB2, Information Integrator, and other IBM products
Big Blue must navigate a torturous path as it competes against, and partners with, Compuware, CA, BMC, and other vendors in the mainframe tools space
Almost every organization is over-invested in its software assets or paying for software it isn’t using. The trick is finding the how and the where
A senior IBMer notes how the company has made the mainframe a more affordable proposition for traditional and non-traditional customers alike
The Ascential acquisition lets IBM address all of its relational database and information integration shortcomings in one fell swoop.
Workloads are coming back to the mainframe, as BI powerhouse Informatica demonstrated last month
Opsware brings its automation-centric focus to network management
Even though HP, IBM, and Sun have monopolized the utility-computing limelight, Opsware believes it has a trump card up its sleeve
How one hospital tapped DB2 Content Manager to drastically reduce its paper and printing costs—and realized other savings to boot
ETL isn’t a data warehousing-only play—companies are increasingly tapping it to support database consolidations and migrations, among other tasks
How a prominent hospital was able to increase the productivity of its IT staff and pay for itself all in about two months