Architecture


Seagull’s BlueZone: Terminal Emulation with an SOA-Friendly Tip

Customers can service-enable terminal-based applications and effectively transform them into full-fledged SOA assets

Encryption Provides Safety Net for Enterprises

A new encryption solution promises to keep employees honest and reduce the number of enterprise "insiders."

Compuware Delivers Mainframe DB2 Performance Tool

How to get even more oomph out of IBM’s zIIPy new DB2 processor engine

Next-Generation Storage: Low Cost Isn’t Enough

New vendors trumpet products with lower price tags, but if they lock you into a single source, what’s the point?

Mainframe’s Future: IBM to Focus on Ease of Use

IBM is putting its money where its mouth is—spending $100 million over the next five years to make its mainframe systems easier to use

Big Iron Front and Center in Big Blue’s SOA Push

IBM is touting a more abstract kind of workload—the mainframe-as-service-enabled hub

Case Studies: SOA in an Age of Legacy Integration

It’s a challenge to bring the mainframe into the modern age of service-oriented architecture but there’s a huge payoff once the job is done.



Microsoft Kicks Off Its Countdown to Vista

Vista includes a few amenities to which IT pros should warm, but is it enough to justify deploying it in corporate environments?

Customers Get Hip to System z Value Proposition

Are a pair of recent Intel-to-System z defections a harbinger of what’s to come?

Open SOA Sells—But Microsoft Isn’t Buying

Microsoft’s absence in new initiatives troubles industry watchers

DataMirror Tweaks Mainframe CDC Tool for Performance, Reliability

DataMirror last week trumpeted what it describes as “significant” performance improvements in the latest version of its Transformation Server for z/OS

HP Bets Big on Software with Mercury Interactive Purchase

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?

BMC, CA Tackle Mainframe Change in the Age of Compliance

Mainframe change management in an age of compliance is a very different beast

The Mainframe Capacity Conundrum Revisited

zLinux or Big Iron J2EE workloads perform better and are cheaper than their RISC- or Intel-based alternatives

CA Teaches Old Databases New Tricks

How many new tricks can you teach an old pre-relational database? Plenty, especially if customers are still actively banking on it.

Distributed Computing, Specialty Engines Bring Companies Back to the Mainframe

The cost of distributed complexity—which is also measured in air conditioned BTUs and kilowatts per hour—is about to get even more expensive

Case Study: Software-as-a-Service Quickly Enables File and Application Sharing

On-demand application suite offers big benefits for a small company

CA Announces Latest Milestone in the ITILization of Its Toolset

Is ITIL tailor-made for the Six Sigma Generation?

Survey Says Big Iron a Solid Bet for the Future

The mainframe is entrenched for the long haul, respondents say

Making the Business Case for Big Iron

A growing number of mainframe pros are trying to educate their colleagues and C-level executives about the business case for Big Iron.