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Z Open Terminal Emulation
You can spend a lot of time working with the Z and not find much new in terminal emulation. But there actually are a few new things, mainly because times change and people work differently, using...
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IBM Wazi cloud-native devops for Z
In this rapidly evolving world of hybrid and multicloud systems, organizations are required to quickly evolve their processes and tooling to address business needs. Foremost among that are development...
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LinuxONE is a Bargain
LinuxONE may be the best bargain you’ll ever find this season, and you don’t have to wait until Santa brings it down your chimney. Think instead about transformation and digital disruption. Do you...
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IBM Expands and Enhances its Cloud Offerings
IBM announced 18 new availability zones in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific to bolster its IBM Cloud business and try to keep pace with AWS, the public cloud leader, and Microsoft. The new...
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Mainframe ISVs Advance the Mainframe While IBM Focuses on Think
Last week IBM reveled in the attention of upwards of 30,000 visitors to its Think conference, reportedly a record for an IBM conference. Meanwhile Syncsort and Compuware stayed home pushing new...
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IBM Jumps into the Next Gen Server Party with POWER9
IBM re-introduced its POWER9 lineup of servers this week starting with 2-socket and 4-socket systems and more variations coming in the months ahead as IBM, along with the rest of the IT vendor...
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Compuware Continues Mainframe GUI Tool Enhancements
Early in 2015 Compuware announced the first in what it promised would be a continuing stream of new mainframe tools and tool enhancements. Did anyone really believe them? Mainframe ISVs are not widely...
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IBM zSystem and Power Score in IDC 4Q 2015 Rankings
IBM retained the number 3 spot with 14.1% share for the quarter as revenue increased 8.9% year-over-year to $2.2 billion in 4Q15. More impressively, IBM experienced strong growth for POWER Systems and...
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Syncsort’s 2015 State of the Mainframe: Little Has Changed
Syncsort’s annual survey of almost 200 mainframe shops found that 83 percent of respondents cited security and availability as key strengths of the mainframe. Are you surprised? You can view the...
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IBM’s z13 Redefines Mainframe Performance, Economics, and Versatility
With the introduction of the new IBM z13, the latest rev of the 50-year old mainframe product line introduced today, it will be hard for IT people to persist in the mistaken belief that the mainframe...
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IBM Ends 2014 with Flurry of Outsourcing, Cloud Activity
Happy New Year. There is much to look forward to in 2015. At the least it probably is time for IBM to rev the System z. The zEnterprise EC12 was introduced in Aug. 2012. You should expect a new machine...
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Compuware Aims for Mainframe Literacy in CIOs
Many IT professionals, especially younger ones, are clueless about the mainframe. Chris O’Malley, president of the mainframe business at Compuware, has met CIOs who are versed in everything about IT...
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Software Licensing for IBM System z Distributed Linux Middleware
DancingDinosaur can’t attend a mainframe conference without checking out at least one session on mainframe software pricing by David Chase, IBM’s mainframe pricing guru. At IBM Enterprise2014, which...
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Meet POWER8 at IBM Enterprise2014
POWER8 is about performance and, most importantly, lower cost-per-performance. To get a detailed insight into POWER8; what it can do for you and how to take advantage of it get over to IBM...
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Best System z TCO in Cloud and Virtualization
IBM recently analyzed various likely customer workload scenarios and found that the System z as an enterprise Linux server could consistently beat x86 machines in terms of TCO. The analysis, which...
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Goodbye X6 and IBM System x
Seems just last week IBM was touting the new X6-based systems, the latest in its x86 System x server lineup. Now the X6 and the entire System x line is going to Lenovo, which will acquire IBM’s x86...
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IBM Leverages High End Server Expertise in New X6 Systems
If you hadn’t noticed how x86 systems have been maturing over the past decade you might be surprised at the introduction yesterday of IBM’s newest entry in the x86 world, the X6. The X6 is the latest...
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Open POWER Consortium Aims to Expand the POWER Ecosystem beyond IBM
With IBM’s August 6 announcement of new POWER partners, including Google, not only is IBM aiming to expand the variety of POWER workloads but establish an alternative ecosystem to Intel/ x86 that...
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New zEnterprise Business Class Entry Model—zBC12
IBM introduced its new zEnterprise Business Class machine, the equivalent of the z114 for the zEC12, the zEnterprise BC12 (zBC12). It offers significantly more power than its predecessor but the...
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A look at IBM Edge 2013 tracks: Storage, PureSystems & more
Nobody ever accused this blogger of being executive caliber but that hasn’t stopped me from rummaging around the Executive Track offerings at IBM Edge 2013 coming up Jun 10-14 in Las Vegas. Called the...
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