A future of reusable services got a step closer to reality last week when IBM announced its new SOA Business Catalog
What Big Iron shops of all sizes have to say about the future of the mainframe is encouraging—to say the least
Big Blue announced initiatives to help programmers and ISVs get that old-time mainframe religion
Successful service-enablement requires a high degree of visibility into an organization’s IT inner workings.
For a starting price of $100,000, customers get Big Iron hardware and software along with specialty processor engines
The key to getting the most from legacy systems and not being tied down by them may be business automation software.
How well does Big Blue's highly virtualized Intel server vision compare with mature implementations available on System z or RISC/Unix?
Industry watchers say we’ll soon see explosive interest in server virtualization
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
The advance of grid computing will bring in new capabilities, cut costs dramatically, enable increasingly ambitious projects, and offer more advanced capabilities to customers. While the implementation details are different for each industry, some strategies are common to all. We explore three strategies.
Oracle enters the already-crowded enterprise search market, as IT moves to supply fast but secure search results.
We explore industry verticals that are are pioneers in grid adoption or illustrate significant, untapped benefits from grid adoption.
IBM's vision puts the mainframe in the center of a distributed application ecosystem that consumes data served up by zIIP workload engines
A core capability of the grid is parallel distributed computation—scaling application performance beyond what is possible with one computer or grid “node.” Unfortunately, most applications today don’t take advantage of parallel computing.
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
One benefit of the hierarchical framework for grids introduced last week is that it helps us discover (and provides insight into) key constituencies in a grid ecosystem and its dynamics. Understanding these dynamics is fundamental to building a sound grid strategy.
Organizations do successfully manage people and process changes en route to large scale enterprise transformations. Here’s how.
We explore what grids are, their usefulness, and how they should be implemented and deployed.