Customers can service-enable terminal-based applications and effectively transform them into full-fledged SOA assets
A new encryption solution promises to keep employees honest and reduce the number of enterprise "insiders."
How to get even more oomph out of IBM’s zIIPy new DB2 processor engine
New vendors trumpet products with lower price tags, but if they lock you into a single source, what’s the point?
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
IBM is touting a more abstract kind of workload—the mainframe-as-service-enabled hub
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.
Vista includes a few amenities to which IT pros should warm, but is it enough to justify deploying it in corporate environments?
Are a pair of recent Intel-to-System z defections a harbinger of what’s to come?
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
On-demand application suite offers big benefits for a small company
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.