Development


Case Study: A Fresh Perspective on Application Performance

Call-services specialist Rockwell tapped an outside QA specialist to nip potential application performance issues in the bud. It’s a growing trend.

IBM zAAPs z/OS Upgrade with Speed, Improved Scalability

Big Blue also previews z/OS version 7, due out next year

Microsoft Tool to Repackage Host Apps Nears Release

New tool lets developers repackage host applications as XML Web services or .NET server components.

Case Study: zLinux Cuts Costs at Controller's Office

The state of Idaho has tapped a zLinux solution to achieve immediate ROI of nearly half-a-million dollars annually

Linux World Recap

Novell, Red Hat, Sun make waves

CA, IBM Moving Databases Open Source

Computer Associates positions open source Ingres as a natural for Big Iron Linux; IBM's Cloudscape will become Apache's Derby

Meet the Other Linux Mainframe: Unisys' ES7000

Freshly certified for Linux, Unisys’ ES7000 supports mainframe-like features such as dynamic partitioning



Implementation SLAs: Should You Take the Bait?

SLAs help ensure the timeliness and success of your application implementation, but they're anything but a slam dunk

CICS: Lynchpin of the Next-Gen Data Center

IBM releases two new and three updated CICS tools

Disaster Recovery: Balancing Performance and Availability

Financial services giant finds happy medium between performance and availability with Big Blue’s new DR service for zSeries

Q&A: HP – Recasting Windows as a Giant-Killer

The new system is being promoted as an extensible platform capable of hosting for Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition, HP-UX, Linux, and even OpenVMS workloads

Database, BI Solutions Drive Grid Growth in the Enterprise

Grid computing finds enterprise killer apps

Agent-less Appliance Identifies Application Performance Problems

NLayers' Insight creates application behavioral models to help organizations optimize and cut costs

Microsoft Preps Windows Variant for High Performance Computing

There’s a new contender on the high-performance-computing block: Windows

Top Five Errors Enterprise Windows Administrators Make

Keep an eye out for these five common mistakes

Blade Servers: Big Iron in a Small Form Factor

Blade server success founded on key mainframe concepts

Q&A: Look Beyond Natural Disasters in Your Disaster Recovery Planning

Effective business continuity planning must address several different kinds of worst-case scenarios

Pros and Cons: Software As A Service

IT can eliminate costly upgrades and reduce installation problems by running hosted applications instead of licensing them. But there are pitfalls.

SOAs: Defining the Integration and Orchestration of Services

Service-oriented architecture starts with simple application integration and culminates with service choreography and next-gen “composite” applications

Field Report: SAP SAPPHIRE: The Year of NetWeaver

Analysis of the company's flagship event