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Case Studies
Italian Olive Oil Manufacturer Enhances Performance With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM Mainframe zSeries
Jan 2010
Fratelli Carli was established in 1911 when Giovanni Carli, the youngest son of the oldest family in Oneglia, Italy, began selling the oil produced in his olive grove to the public. Fratelli Carli...
Provided by Red Hat
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Case Studies
Tallahassee Community College Dramatically Cuts It Costs While Revamping Its It Environment With Hardware and Software Solutions From IBM
Nov 2008
Founded in 1966, Tallahassee Community College (TCC) is a comprehensive open-admission community college. It aims to deliver excellence in teaching and learning through educational programs that...
Provided by Red Hat
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Whitepapers
Using SAP NetWeaver Adaptive Computing Controller for IBM Power Systems and IBM System z
Mar 2010
Virtualization is becoming more and more powerful and is reaching out to all server platforms. While most IT departments use virtualization technology for the purpose of flexibility, workload...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Rational ClearCase High Availability Options on Linux for System z
Aug 2010
This paper will present two highly available IBM Rational ClearCase architectures which can be setup on Linux for System z. This paper documents a Proof Of Concept (POC), providing detailed...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
WebSphere Application Server and the z/OS Workload Manager
Sep 2010
Suppose one has installed WebSphere Application Server for z/OS into one of the LPARs. One followed the install instructions for classifying the WebSphere started tasks into an appropriate WLM...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Northern Trust Turns To Google For More Accurate and Relevant Search
Oct 2009
In order to ensure regulatory compliance, Northern Trust's IT department needed a better tool to help employees quickly find the latest forms and information. Using the Google Search Appliance,...
Provided by Google
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White Papers
How To Boost Your Bottom Line in Today's Business Climate
Oct 2009
In conjunction with Google Enterprise Search, the Google Search Appliance (GSA) can dramatically reduce your organization's total cost of ownership (TCO). By providing search solutions that are...
Provided by Google
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Webcasts
TiVo Reduces Call Center Costs
Sep 2010
Implementing the Google Search Appliance not only reduced the amount of time TiVo's Customer Support Agents spent searching for content, it also reduced time spent on the phone with customers,...
Provided by Google
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Webcasts
Bring Fast, Relevant Search To Your Organization
Apr 2010
Google Search Appliance makes searching your company's information as easy as searching Google.com itself. Indexing more than 220 different file types (HTML, PDF, DOC, XLS, etc.), GSA provides...
Provided by Google
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White Papers
Virtualize with Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series Servers
Apr 2010
Huge business benefits that can be achieved by consolidating and virtualizing environments with Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers. The document describes some of the challenges...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
DAI - Forrester Study: Total Economic Impact of WebSphere Application Server
Oct 2010
This commissioned study conducted by Forrester on behalf of IBM describes how one company was able to realize a 42% 3-year return on investment by migrating from an open source application server...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
IT Services Provider Migrates From Mainframe, Boosts Agility and Innovation With Existing Code
Aug 2010
Skandinavisk Data Center (SDC) helps small and medium-sized banks compete with larger ones by providing competitive IT services at an affordable price. To maintain its long-term viability, SDC is...
Provided by Microsoft
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Webcasts
Mainframe Tape: A Technology for the New Millennium (Part 1)
Oct 2010
Tape technology, has been proclaimed a "Legacy technology" over the past decade. However, tape continues to thrive and to deliver value to organizations that use it. This is due to enhancements...
Provided by CA
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Webcasts
Mainframe-Hosted Workload Automation Web Services: The Next Step in Integration
Sep 2010
What's the hottest technology job out there today? Working on the mainframe at CA Technologies! Follow a cohort of just-out-of-college mainframers as they begin their journeys to becoming part of...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Increase Application Scalability and Improve System Utilization with Oracle VM Server for SPARC
May 2010
This Oracle white paper describes the application of Oracle VM Server for SPARC to implement high-capacity enterprise systems. Oracle Solaris CoolThreads technology combined with Oracle VM Server...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Virtualize, Manage, Backup, Consolidate: Simplifying Key Datacenter Initiatives with Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance
Nov 2010
Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance product line radically simplifies the way that organizations manage their storage. It combines industry-leading performance, density, and efficiency with a rich...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
Reduce Cost and Increase Productivity With Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Solutions
Sep 2009
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has become one of the fastest-growing and most reliable technology platforms available for mission-critical enterprise applications. Whether deployed on bare-metal or as...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
Virtualization Licensing and Support Lethargy: Curing the Disease That Stalls Virtualization Adoption
Jan 2008
Mainframe-class virtualization has existed for decades and includes a user and vendor community that is very comfortable with managing software and licensing on mainframe systems. Similar comfort...
Provided by Burton Group
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White Papers
Why Virtualization Fragmentation Sucks
Dec 2010
Virtualization has moved into the mainstream of computing. Most businesses are no longer asking if they should deploy a virtualization solution; they are instead asking which vendors support the...
Provided by rPath
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White Papers
COVERT: Configurable Virtual Redundancy With Transparent Availability on Commodity Software
Jan 2008
Scaling integrated circuit technology into the deep submicron regime is expected to increase both soft and hard error rates significantly. Therefore, providing high availability in the presence of...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
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White Papers
ITAnalysis - Mainframe Management Gets Its Swagger
Aug 2009
Back in the old days kids followed in the footsteps of their parents and their parent's parents. A proud tradition of craftsmanship, skills and knowledge continuing across the generations -...
Provided by Quocirca
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Whitepapers
Making Large UPS Systems More Efficient
Jan 2013
As energy resources become scarcer and more expensive, electrical efficiency is becoming a more important performance factor in the specification and selection of large UPS systems. There are...
Provided by APC by Schneider Electric
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Whitepapers
IBM's Watson: Redefining systems design
Apr 2011
IBM's Watson—the computing system that competed with human contestants on Jeopardy!—represents an impressive leap forward in systems design and analytics. Read this datasheet to see how IBM can...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Insider Guide: IBM x3400 M3 Server
May 2011
The IBM® System x3400 M3 offers a powerful solution for small, midsized and distributed businesses that need a flexible, stand-alone tower server. Read this insider guide for a product review and...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers - Video
Demo: Implementing Softek zDMF technology
Jul 2011
IBM Data Mobility Services Softek z/OS® Dataset Mobility Facility (zDMF) technology is host-based data migration software that offers more flexibility and fewer operational restrictions than...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers - Video
Implementing Softek zDMF technology Flash Demo
Jul 2011
IBM Data Mobility Services Softek z/OS® Dataset Mobility Facility (zDMF) technology is host-based data migration software that offers more flexibility and fewer operational restrictions than...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The Hartmann Group consolidates global SAP applications
Jul 2011
The Hartmann Group, a world leader in medical supplies, migrated to the latest releases of SAP ERP applications and consolidated multiple servers to IBM® Power® servers featuring IBM...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Bendigo Bank Bolsters Growth Strategy With IBM Global Financing
Sep 2007
With 25-30 new branches opening each year, Bendigo Bank views IT infrastructure as critical to supporting the bank in its efficient delivery of banking and wealth management services to customers...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM System x® x86 servers: Delivering customer satisfaction by excelling in hardware and support
Oct 2012
Leading IT Industry analysts Technology Business Research (TBR) conducts quarterly x86 Server Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) studies to identify what factors are most important to small and midsize...
Provided by IBM & Intel
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Whitepapers
Evolution of Cloud Computing and Enabling Technologies
Oct 2012
The authors present an overview of the history of forecasting software over the past 25 years, concentrating especially on the interaction between computing and technologies from mainframe...
Provided by Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES)
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White Papers
The CIO's Guide to Legacy Optimization
Sep 2007
The ongoing increase in maintenance and licensing costs for existing applications leaves only a limited share of the IT budget for new investments in more strategic IT capabilities. Today, this...
Provided by Tata Consultancy Services
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eBooks
IBM z/OS Mainframe Security and Audit Management Using the IBM Security zSecure Suite
Feb 2013
The IBM® Security zSecure suite consists of multiple components designed to help you administer your mainframe security server, monitor for threats, audit usage and configurations, and enforce...
Provided by IBM
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eBooks
Empowering Security and Compliance Management for the z/OS RACF Environment using IBM Tivoli Security Management for z/OS
Feb 2013
In this IBM® Redpaper™ document we discuss how Tivoli® Security Management for z/OS® allows you to submit mainframe security information from z/OS, RACF®, and DB2®...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Is it time to replace your mainframe?
Aug 2011
Mainframe environments have long been the platform of choice for mission-critical business applications, but they are unlikely to remain so. Migrating applications to more contemporary platforms...
Provided by Micro Focus
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White Papers
CIO challenges: Escaping the mainframe trap
Aug 2011
CIO priorities for 2011 are clear: provide business growth, attract and retain customers and reduce enterprise costs. With these goals in mind, there are a number of strategies that these info...
Provided by Micro Focus
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White Papers
Guide: Fuel productivity by rehosting development
Aug 2011
The reliability and security of mainframe environments have made rehosting development the natural choice for important business applications. With the majority of mainframe processing power...
Provided by Micro Focus
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White Papers
Escaping the Mainframe Trap
Sep 2011
Mainframe environments have historically been the natural choice to run mission-critical business applications. However, as businesses plan their IT strategies for the next 5-10 years, how much of...
Provided by Micro Focus
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White Papers
Virtual Mainframe: Rehost Development
Sep 2011
The reliability and security of mainframe environments have made rehosting development the natural choice for mission-critical business applications. With the majority of mainframe processing...
Provided by Micro Focus
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Whitepapers
Test: IBM Smart Analytics Systems vs Oracle Exadata X2-2
Sep 2011
Is there one clear leader in data warehousing and online transaction processing offerings? This comparison paper from Bloor Research is a comprehensive comparison of IBM and Oracle's offerings for...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Applying Mainframe Experience to the Distributed Environment
Oct 2007
Mainframes and distributed systems, previously looked at as separate entities, are now rapidly coming together into a single, distributed IT environment. As a result, people from two previously...
Provided by BMC Software
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Whitepapers
HP StorageWorks XP Disk Array and Mainframe White Paper: Direct Attached Vs. Switched Vs. Cascaded FICON
Jun 2009
With the speed of FICON channels, and the availability of FICON ports on both the Mainframe and XP, one may think that simply direct attaching the XP to the Mainframe CHPIDs is the best thing to...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HP StorageWorks XP Disk Array and Mainframe White Paper: Data Recovery and Restart in an IBM Sysplex And/or GDPS Environment
Jun 2009
At every level, large enterprises recognize the advantage of automated processes. The mainframe was created to run applications in a shared workload environment, providing dramatically fewer boxes...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Workloads for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z
Feb 2009
Many customers are migrating their mission-critical workloads to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on System z servers to reduce data center costs. An important aspect of this server consolidation...
Provided by Novell
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Whitepapers
Gaining Insight Into Critical Enterprise Applications With IBM CICS and Business Events
Jul 2009
The ability to detect events in IBM CICS application processing, and to emit those events for consumption in a variety of ways without making changes to the existing applications, opens up a...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
SPARC Enterprise ARCHITECTURE M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 Servers: Architecture Flexible, Mainframe-Class Computer Power
Feb 2009
To support the endless demand for scalability, reliability, and manageability in the datacenter, infrastructures need to provide ever-increasing performance and capacity while becoming simpler to...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
Managing SQL Performance With BMC Software
Oct 2008
DB2 for z/OS is the premier IBM database management system for mainframe processing. DB2 performance is always a hot topic at conferences and user groups. Many software products have been written...
Provided by BMC Software
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Case Studies
Brazilian Navy Moves From Mainframe to HP Platform: Modernizing IT, Cutting Costs
Jan 2008
The Brazilian Navy wanted to lower cost - to reduce the BRL 6 million (US$3 million) spent annually to keep the mainframe operational, including software licenses, maintenance, and database. The...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Bernalillo County Consolidates Servers and Storage, Improves Reliability, and Migrates From an IBM Mainframe With an End-to-End HP Solution
Mar 2008
For Bernalillo County the challenge was to reduce costs and improve efficiency by consolidating servers, migrating from a mainframe to industry-standard hardware, upgrading storage, and launching...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
IBM Mainframe Migration to HP Integrity Server and HP-UX 11i Environment Helps Optimize Business Processes
Jul 2009
One of the world's largest forest products companies, Weyerhaeuser Company operates in 10 countries and employs approximately 19,000 people, primarily in the United States and Canada. Weyerhaeuser...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Customer Video: SAP IT Chooses DB2
Aug 2009
SAP's main driver for choosing IBM on DB2 was about the simple question: "What do we get for the money?". Find out why SAP Corporate Business Systems chose IBM DB2.
Provided by IBM
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Training
IOD Portfolio Overview Demo
Aug 2009
Watch this video to see how IBM can help you unlock the business value of information for competitive advantage. Whether you are planning an initiative that requires master data management (MDM),...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Got Value? Getting the Most Out of Mainframe Software
Jan 2009
This white paper provides an examination of how Dr. Covey's ideas in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People can help make IT managers become highly effective business people by understanding the...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Employing Best Practices for Mainframe Tape Encryption
Jun 2008
Encryption for mainframe tapes has rapidly ascended to the top of the list of data center requirements due to increasing disclosures by high-profile organizations regarding the loss or theft of...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
CA Resource Management Suites Address the Challenges of Optimizing the Online Mainframe
Sep 2008
Billions of eBusiness and supply-chain dollars depend on highly available, high performance mainframe applications and subsystems. Millions of people access and analyze petabytes of structured...
Provided by Ptak, Noel & Associates
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White Papers
Five Ways That Service Optimization Improves Mainframe Staff Productivity
May 2009
An online shopping network saved more than 200 labor hours a day, seven days a week, of mostly developer and senior-level system administrator time - saving $1.8 million in the first year alone on...
Provided by BMC Software
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Whitepapers
On Demand Teleconference: Managing Large Objects with DB2 for z/OS
Aug 2009
This teleconference explains how the IBM® DB2® Administration Tool and IBM DB2 Utilities Suite for z/OS® can help you manage LOBs efficiently and effectively. We'll cover the types of activities...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Enterprise Web 2.0 application support from IBM
Aug 2009
IBM® WebSphere® Portal for IBM System z® software provides an efficient way for mainframe users to extend the value of their System z platform to the Web. See how this software can help you...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Mainframe Reliability on Industry-Standard Servers: Intel Itanium-Based Servers Are Changing the Economics of Mission-Critical Computing
Dec 2007
Downtime costs are skyrocketing in today's real-time, 24/7 business world. Intel Itanium-based servers offer a cost-effective solution, with enterprise-class systems that rival mainframes and...
Provided by Intel
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Webcasts
BMC MAINVIEW SRM - The Power of 3
Oct 2007
Mainframe storage resource management can be like enjoying a day at the beach. The attendee will learn how easy storage management can be with the integrated technology of BMC MAINVIEW SRM...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Accelerate Your Batch Performance With BMC MAINVIEW Batch Optimizer
Jun 2008
With 70% of all workload running in batch, IT managers continue to face the daunting task of supporting more work with fewer resources. At the same time Service Level Agreements and Real Time...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Expedite Your IPL and Shutdowns of z/OS Using BMC MAINVIEW for AutoOPERATOR Component Total Object Manager (TOM)
Jun 2009
The attendee of this webcast will learn how "One button" concept will expedite both IPL and shutdown - this is just one of the new features introduced in MAINVIEW Total Object Manager 2.1 (a...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Using BMC CONTROL-M and IOA API's to Help Simplify Automation, Analysis & Reporting
Feb 2008
This webcast will cover the functionality and usage of the CONTROL-M and IOA Application Programming Interfaces.
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Using DASD Manager to Control Your DB2 Environment
Mar 2008
The mainframe has become the hub for most of the mission critical applications in many organizations, and houses most, if not all, of the enterprise data. That data is increasingly being stored in...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Discovering BMC CONTROL-D's Extended Solutions
Jun 2008
The attendee of this webcast will see how to set up CONTROL-D Agents to capture reports from Distributed platforms and write them directly into the CONTROL-D Repository making them immediately...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Best Practices for Event Management
Jul 2008
Amid the overwhelming volume of data that is provided by monitoring tools such as BMC MAINVIEW, customers often ask "what metrics should he/she be monitoring?". This webcast will address this...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
What's New for BMC MAINVIEW for z/OS, BMC CMF Monitor, and BMC MAINVIEW Sysprog Services
Oct 2008
This webcast will acquaint the latest releases and will include such topics as extended zIIP/zAAP support, CMFMON History, added actions, reductions in resource consumption, and plans for...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
An Analyst's View of BMC DB2 for z/OS Administration Tools
Dec 2008
The presenter of this webcast discusses his findings on how BMC Database Administration for DB2 provides real business value to those who make it a key part of their mainframe systems management...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Controlling Explosive New Workload Growth:Trends and Best Practices From the BMC 2008 Mainframe Survey Results
Jan 2009
Mainframes are no longer the stodgy old legacy platform. The superior economics related to running complex, mission critical, mixed computing tasks on mainframes are driving the introduction of a...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
What's New for MAINVIEW Total Object Manager (TOM) V 2.1
Jan 2008
The attendee of this webcast will learn about improvements and a new interface introduced in TOM 2.1. BMC MAINVIEW Total Object Manager, also referred to as TOM, provides a basic infrastructure...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Converting a DLI program to BMP
Feb 2009
This presenter of this webcast will run through the differences of DLI and BMP processing. Then the presenter will cover the various steps that must be completed in order to make the application...
Provided by BMC Software
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Whitepapers
Mainframe Rehosting With Oracle Tuxedo: Accelerating Cost Reduction and Application Modernization
Mar 2009
Find out how mainframe rehosting lets IT professionals spend more time and money on development rather than on maintaining aging systems. This free whitepaper explains how you can unlock the value...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Mainframe Security and Compliance - Getting It "RIGHT" the First Time
Apr 2009
The move from a reactive posture to a proactive one that is characterized by automated, repeatable processes for security management is the key to reducing the total cost and complexity of...
Provided by CA
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Whitepapers
IBM Event Processing Solutions for Business Risk Management on System z With CICS and WebSphere Business Events
Dec 2008
Managing business risk is an increasing requirement for enterprise lines of business and for IT departments. IT managers, solution architects, business analysts and IBM CICS specialists are often...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Consolidation of Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes to Linux on System z
Apr 2009
This paper provides an overview on the consolidation of Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes to Linux on IBM System z as part of IBM's Enterprise Computing Model transformation. The successful...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Enterprise Content Management on IBM System z
Dec 2008
Information On Demand is a comprehensive vision for unlocking the business value of information for competitive advantage by enabling organizations to establish and leverage trusted information to...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Managing Security Risk and Compliance: CA Mainframe Security
Nov 2008
Security is here to stay - no one in this day and age ever asks for less security and so it is with mainframe systems that are increasingly back in vogue. Securing the systems responsible for...
Provided by Bloor Research
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White Papers
Virtual SMB Centre in a Box?
Jun 2009
What types of organizations have the most efficient IT operations? Data centers that provide highly available and resilient services with a minimum of human intervention and management? IT shops...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Virtualization of SAP Applications with VMware ESX Server on IBM System x3850/x3950 M2
Jun 2009
This whitepaper looks at how Virtualization is the concept of decoupling the hardware from the operating systems and applications. This can be implemented a number of ways as we will discuss, but...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Trend Watch: Mission Critcial x86
Jun 2009
This paper examines how, over the past several years, research has shown many organisation moving mission-critical systems onto x86 servers.
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Selecting Server Processors to Reduce Total Cost
Jun 2009
This paper examines how Intel IT is standardizing on Intel® Xeon® processor X5570 (2.93 GHz) for two-socket servers for design computing and enterprise server virtualization. The newest high-end...
Provided by Intel
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Webcasts
Bring Fast, Relevant Search To Your Organization
Apr 2010
Google Search Appliance makes searching your company's information as easy as searching Google.com itself. Indexing more than 220 different file types (HTML, PDF, DOC, XLS, etc.), GSA provides...
Provided by Google
-
White Papers
Virtualize with Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series Servers
Apr 2010
Huge business benefits that can be achieved by consolidating and virtualizing environments with Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers. The document describes some of the challenges...
Provided by Oracle
-
Whitepapers
DAI - Forrester Study: Total Economic Impact of WebSphere Application Server
Oct 2010
This commissioned study conducted by Forrester on behalf of IBM describes how one company was able to realize a 42% 3-year return on investment by migrating from an open source application server...
Provided by IBM
-
Case Studies
IT Services Provider Migrates From Mainframe, Boosts Agility and Innovation With Existing Code
Aug 2010
Skandinavisk Data Center (SDC) helps small and medium-sized banks compete with larger ones by providing competitive IT services at an affordable price. To maintain its long-term viability, SDC is...
Provided by Microsoft
-
Webcasts
Mainframe Tape: A Technology for the New Millennium (Part 1)
Oct 2010
Tape technology, has been proclaimed a "Legacy technology" over the past decade. However, tape continues to thrive and to deliver value to organizations that use it. This is due to enhancements...
Provided by CA
-
Webcasts
Mainframe-Hosted Workload Automation Web Services: The Next Step in Integration
Sep 2010
What's the hottest technology job out there today? Working on the mainframe at CA Technologies! Follow a cohort of just-out-of-college mainframers as they begin their journeys to becoming part of...
Provided by CA
-
White Papers
Virtualize, Manage, Backup, Consolidate: Simplifying Key Datacenter Initiatives with Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance
Nov 2010
Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance product line radically simplifies the way that organizations manage their storage. It combines industry-leading performance, density, and efficiency with a rich...
Provided by Oracle
-
Webcasts
Reduce Cost and Increase Productivity With Red Hat Enterprise Linux Management Solutions
Sep 2009
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has become one of the fastest-growing and most reliable technology platforms available for mission-critical enterprise applications. Whether deployed on bare-metal or as...
Provided by Red Hat
-
White Papers
Virtualization Licensing and Support Lethargy: Curing the Disease That Stalls Virtualization Adoption
Jan 2008
Mainframe-class virtualization has existed for decades and includes a user and vendor community that is very comfortable with managing software and licensing on mainframe systems. Similar comfort...
Provided by Burton Group
-
White Papers
Why Virtualization Fragmentation Sucks
Dec 2010
Virtualization has moved into the mainstream of computing. Most businesses are no longer asking if they should deploy a virtualization solution; they are instead asking which vendors support the...
Provided by rPath
-
White Papers
COVERT: Configurable Virtual Redundancy With Transparent Availability on Commodity Software
Jan 2008
Scaling integrated circuit technology into the deep submicron regime is expected to increase both soft and hard error rates significantly. Therefore, providing high availability in the presence of...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
-
White Papers
ITAnalysis - Mainframe Management Gets Its Swagger
Aug 2009
Back in the old days kids followed in the footsteps of their parents and their parent's parents. A proud tradition of craftsmanship, skills and knowledge continuing across the generations -...
Provided by Quocirca
-
White Papers
Intel Multi-Core Processors: Making the Move to Quad-Core and Beyond
Sep 2006
This paper explains the advantages and challenges of multi-core processing, plus provides a glimpse into the upcoming Intel quad-core processors and the direction in which Intel is taking...
Provided by Intel
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Whitepapers
Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers
Jan 2013
Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers. It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data...
Provided by APC by Schneider Electric
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Whitepapers
Making Large UPS Systems More Efficient
Jan 2013
As energy resources become scarcer and more expensive, electrical efficiency is becoming a more important performance factor in the specification and selection of large UPS systems. There are...
Provided by APC by Schneider Electric
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Whitepapers
IBM's Watson: Redefining systems design
Apr 2011
IBM's Watson—the computing system that competed with human contestants on Jeopardy!—represents an impressive leap forward in systems design and analytics. Read this datasheet to see how IBM can...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Insider Guide: IBM x3400 M3 Server
May 2011
The IBM® System x3400 M3 offers a powerful solution for small, midsized and distributed businesses that need a flexible, stand-alone tower server. Read this insider guide for a product review and...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers - Video
Demo: Implementing Softek zDMF technology
Jul 2011
IBM Data Mobility Services Softek z/OS® Dataset Mobility Facility (zDMF) technology is host-based data migration software that offers more flexibility and fewer operational restrictions than...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers - Video
Implementing Softek zDMF technology Flash Demo
Jul 2011
IBM Data Mobility Services Softek z/OS® Dataset Mobility Facility (zDMF) technology is host-based data migration software that offers more flexibility and fewer operational restrictions than...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The Hartmann Group consolidates global SAP applications
Jul 2011
The Hartmann Group, a world leader in medical supplies, migrated to the latest releases of SAP ERP applications and consolidated multiple servers to IBM® Power® servers featuring IBM...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Using Rules Based Automation With BMC MAINVIEW AutoOPERATOR
Jun 2007
The presenter of this webcast will discuss the latest enhancements to BMC MAINVIEW AutoOPERATOR - the platform of choice for improving mainframe service levels and developing automated solutions...
Provided by BMC Software
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Case Studies
Bendigo Bank Bolsters Growth Strategy With IBM Global Financing
Sep 2007
With 25-30 new branches opening each year, Bendigo Bank views IT infrastructure as critical to supporting the bank in its efficient delivery of banking and wealth management services to customers...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM System x® x86 servers: Delivering customer satisfaction by excelling in hardware and support
Oct 2012
Leading IT Industry analysts Technology Business Research (TBR) conducts quarterly x86 Server Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) studies to identify what factors are most important to small and midsize...
Provided by IBM & Intel
-
Whitepapers
Evolution of Cloud Computing and Enabling Technologies
Oct 2012
The authors present an overview of the history of forecasting software over the past 25 years, concentrating especially on the interaction between computing and technologies from mainframe...
Provided by Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES)
-
White Papers
The CIO's Guide to Legacy Optimization
Sep 2007
The ongoing increase in maintenance and licensing costs for existing applications leaves only a limited share of the IT budget for new investments in more strategic IT capabilities. Today, this...
Provided by Tata Consultancy Services
-
eBooks
IBM z/OS Mainframe Security and Audit Management Using the IBM Security zSecure Suite
Feb 2013
The IBM® Security zSecure suite consists of multiple components designed to help you administer your mainframe security server, monitor for threats, audit usage and configurations, and enforce...
Provided by IBM
-
eBooks
Empowering Security and Compliance Management for the z/OS RACF Environment using IBM Tivoli Security Management for z/OS
Feb 2013
In this IBM® Redpaper™ document we discuss how Tivoli® Security Management for z/OS® allows you to submit mainframe security information from z/OS, RACF®, and DB2®...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Is it time to replace your mainframe?
Aug 2011
Mainframe environments have long been the platform of choice for mission-critical business applications, but they are unlikely to remain so. Migrating applications to more contemporary platforms...
Provided by Micro Focus
-
White Papers
CIO challenges: Escaping the mainframe trap
Aug 2011
CIO priorities for 2011 are clear: provide business growth, attract and retain customers and reduce enterprise costs. With these goals in mind, there are a number of strategies that these info...
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Guide: Fuel productivity by rehosting development
Aug 2011
The reliability and security of mainframe environments have made rehosting development the natural choice for important business applications. With the majority of mainframe processing power...
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Escaping the Mainframe Trap
Sep 2011
Mainframe environments have historically been the natural choice to run mission-critical business applications. However, as businesses plan their IT strategies for the next 5-10 years, how much of...
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Virtual Mainframe: Migration
Sep 2011
Today's CIOs are increasingly questioning whether the mainframe will continue to be a strategic platform in the future. A recent survey by Standish Group1 showed that while 70% of CIOs consider...
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Test: IBM Smart Analytics Systems vs Oracle Exadata X2-2
Sep 2011
Is there one clear leader in data warehousing and online transaction processing offerings? This comparison paper from Bloor Research is a comprehensive comparison of IBM and Oracle's offerings for...
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Applying Mainframe Experience to the Distributed Environment
Oct 2007
Mainframes and distributed systems, previously looked at as separate entities, are now rapidly coming together into a single, distributed IT environment. As a result, people from two previously...
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Moving Mainframe Applications to Windows: Considering the Options to Preserve, Translate, or Rewrite
Feb 2008
The paper aims to raise awareness of the available software solutions that can be used to move mainframe language applications to the Windows operating system, and to indicate additional...
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Mass Distributed Server Consolidation: System z Mainframe Linux-on-z/VM Extreme Virtualization Far Outclasses Over-Hyped x86/x64 Approaches
Feb 2008
This paper reviews the scale-out, distributed server proliferation catastrophe, and looks at why IT infrastructure optimization is now a business imperative. It evaluates the role of...
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Fujitsu Lays Foundation for Virtual Infrastructures
Sep 2007
Fujitsu brings a unique perspective to the growing market for virtualization solutions, derived from its long experience with mainframes, its leading-edge blade server technology, and its balanced...
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Introduction to Data on System z
Mar 2008
The data sources covered in this paper were chosen based on their presence in customer environments. Although some of these data sources are not necessarily growing, they do exist in current day...
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Extending the IBM HTTP Server for z/OS
Mar 2008
IBM HTTP Server (IHS) is a web server based on the Apache Software Foundation's Apache HTTP Server that runs on AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows NT, and z/OS. This paper described how to...
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SSL Options in WebSphere for z/OS V6.1
Mar 2008
WebSphere for z/OS Version 6.1 underwent a major change in the way in which inbound IIOP and HTTP requests are handled by the WebSphere Application Server Control Region. Specifically, the native...
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