IBM last week unveiled two new System i servers for the SMB market
There’s plenty of buzz about server virtualization, but success is not assured.
A closer look at the challenges of virtualization technologies in a large-scale initiative.
Why don’t proponents of the "mainframe brain drain" hypothesis make similar claims about other costly technology niches?
IBM officials position CICS 3.2 as the no-brainer hub for an organization’s -- any organization’s -- service-oriented architecture.
Though StorHouse is principally a data warehousing system, its stronger value may be as a database archiving solution.
IBM officials are confident zIIP will take off -- once it’s had time to germinate in the minds of customers
Is what's good for IBM's System z sales efforts always good for independent mainframe technologists?
CA pushes Wily SOA Manager as a good prescription for treating application performance issues in SOA environments.
IBM hopes that DB2 9’s performance, manageability, and security enhancements will make it a must-upgrade release
IBM last week made a pair of notable moves on the business intelligence front
In practice, for some mainframe customers, Big Blue’s MSU technology dividend really does translate into significant cost savings.
IBM Corp. is server market king—thanks to the strong performance of Big Blue’s System x, System p, and System z platforms
zNextGen professionals say they’re drawn to Big Iron for the same reason as many older mainframes: staying power
More zNextGen grads were in attendance at last week’s SHARE get together than at any previous user conference, SHARE officials say
Storage standards don’t top the list of customer needs.
Big Blue touts simplified mainframe admin features along with new versions of Tivoli, WebSphere, and DB2 software for z/OS
CA says organizations can offload some management tasks from their expensive mainframe general processors onto cheaper zIIPs
z/VM 5.3 might still be five months away, but many VM programmers are already licking their lips in anticipation
Some industry watchers think Big Blue’s midrange workhorse might have finally turned a corner