In spite of their differences, mainframers seem to agree on a few important points, although even these may surprise you.
In light of IBM’s purchase last year of Ascential, SAP and Oracle could be contemplating blockbuster data integration acquisitions of their own.
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?
In today’s compliance-crazy climate, data profiling is all but essential
From acquisitions to outsourcing, it was a very busy year
Does grey knight CA—“the industry’s safety net”—have a new set of priorities?
UltraSPARC T1 is a marvelous achievement, to be sure—but will its cutting edginess translate into market success?
A new appliance acts as a meta-broker to the wild profusion of competing network access control schemes
If you think you’ve got a lot more on your plate these days, you’re probably right
IT has experienced relatively healthy job growth in the U.S. during a period when job growth as a whole remained stagnant
Does IBM’s new master data management pitch take SAP, Oracle, and other enterprise applications vendors out of the loop?
For perhaps the first time ever, SQL Server boosters are talking about taking on the other guys’ databases—and winning
A new study makes a strong case for placing executives with IT experience at senior levels: a solid increase in a firm's economic performance.
Most organizations rely on resource-intensive and manual processes to identify and fix their application-performance woes
Logical data protection is a vital part of IT's backup/recovery plans
Savvy organizations are embracing data archiving as a means to reduce costs, improve performance, and satisfy compliance requirements
IBM’s new virtual desktop solution emphasizes a centralized, host-based infrastructure and a lightweight, terminal-esque desktop—and virtualization, too
There’s an ugly downside to many of the utility computing technologies on the market today
If the mainframe is to remain a viable platform for the next forty years, IBM Corp. may need to do more to address some of its most glaring pain points