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.
Even companies that have embraced next-generation mainframe workloads often give short shrift to the question of training. What gives?
A great way to understand the power and benefits of grids is to look at the philosophy and two key properties they share with large transportation systems.
How you may be troubleshooting application performance and reliability issues in the loosely coupled application-scape of the future
Adding an imaging solution to your data-protection strategy can protect you from any type of data or server calamity.
What do the PlayStation 3 and IBM’s next-generation blade system have in common? A single Cell, you might say.
Some mainframe pros say that next-generation workloads (such as zLinux and J2EE) point the way to false destinies
Organizations may see service-enablement, and the next generation of SLAs, as a chance to improve the responsiveness and dynamism of their IT departments.
In spite of their differences, mainframers seem to agree on a few important points, although even these may surprise you.
What can we expect from IBM’s zSeries team in 2006? If history is any indication, it could be an eventful year.
With so many major events last year in the mainframe arena, why are so many Big Iron pros still pessimistic about the future?