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Brick and mortar IBM commitment to System z
Do you worry about the future of the System z and mainframes in general? I did until I saw an IBM press release in April about opening a new 56,000 sq. ft., $30 million manufacturing facility in...
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Linux on System z TCO for BI
Since its acquisition Cognos in 2007 IBM has revived the notion of BI on the mainframe. DancingDinosaur first took this up here last October. With Cognos 8 running on Linux on System z the idea finally...
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IBM zEnterprise Wish List
What’s your 2011 wish list for IBM and the zEnterprise? If you’re like most mainframe data center managers, lower z196 prices is probably up there. But what the data center managers DancingDinosaur has...
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IllumOS revives Solaris on IBM System z
What used to be called OpenSolaris is now IllumOS, and efforts to complete the port of OpenSolaris to the System z are ramping up in earnest after months of inaction. While the Solaris on z effort was...
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zBX and the Next IBM Hypervisor
Even before the zEnterprise/zBX was introduced, most mainframe data centers were multi-platform, multi-OS shops. IBM had z/VM and Power VM as hypervisors for System z and Power systems, but in the x86...
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IBM vs. Oracle HP Itanium
It was mind boggling enough when Oracle bought Sun Microsystems in April 2009, ostensibly to create “the only company that can engineer an integrated system – applications to disk – where all the...
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Where Best to Run Linux
Mainframe data centers have many platform options for running Linux. The challenge is deciding where: x86 servers and blades, IBM Power Systems, HP Itanium, Oracle/Sun, IBM’s System z or zEnterprise....
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SUSE zBX Promo Saves $39K
A few months back SUSE launched a promotion to drive adoption of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on zBX blades. If you are a new or existing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for System z user, you can get a...
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EUROCONTROL Adopts zEnterprise Hybrid Computing
Since IBM introduced hybrid computing and the zEnterprise in 2010, adoption has been slow, to say the least. In November IBM announced a couple of new hybrid computing users. At a recent analyst...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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