Hardware


CA Overhauls Storage Product Line

Company announces new versions of its BrightStor storage products; the venerable Enterprise Backup product is discontinued

IBM Delivers Next-Generation DB2 8.2 Database

Big Blue also discloses plans to integrate its DB2 and Informix Dynamix Server product lines in future versions of both products

Big Blue Opens Up BladeCenter

IBM’s move could drive down the cost of entry for many potential adopters—and stimulate additional sales for BladeCenter

Q&A: Itanium – Succeeding Where Brute Force Alone Isn’t Enough

A cooler, more flexible, and more powerful Itanium design may yet succeed where brute force alone hasn’t been enough

IBM zAAPs z/OS Upgrade with Speed, Improved Scalability

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

For Online VSAM Backup, BMC Came First, Company Says

Controversy highlights the way an ambitious Big Blue competes with many of its long-time partners

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



Itanium: Intel’s Once-and-Future 64-bit King

Even though Intel has embraced 64-bit on the low-end with its new Xeon chips, it hasn’t given up on Itanium

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

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

Why Traditional SLAs Are No Longer Adequate

SLAs have traditionally relied on operating system utilities to determine process availability -- but their accuracy isn't assured. Measuring the availability of business processes may hold the key to correct application performance assessment.

Database, BI Solutions Drive Grid Growth in the Enterprise

Grid computing finds enterprise killer apps

IBM Announces Power5 for pSeries

Power5 and new AIX 5.3 bring multi-threading, enhanced virtualization to pSeries

Is Sun Microsystems on the Road to Recovery?

A major accord last month between Sun and Fujitsu could fundamentally shake up the high-end server space

Lack of IT Guidance Hinders Compliance Efforts

Continued use of legacy environments may result in charges of negligence

Blade Servers: Big Iron in a Small Form Factor

Blade server success founded on key mainframe concepts