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- IBM's Server Group Fails to Grow Again in 1998
- By Timothy Prickett Morgan The toughest job at IBM Corp isn't being its chairman, it is being the server czar. As far as anyone can tell, IBM's server organization has only seen year-to-year revenue growth once since 1990, and that was way back in 1995 before mainframe, AS/400 and...
- Research articles 1999-03-29
- Y2K Dilemma Reaches The PC -- Problems may slow economic growth, says Federal Reserve official
- The din of warnings surrounding the Year 2000 problem appears finally to have woken a dangerous sleeping giant-the desktop computer. Last week, Federal Reserve Board Gov. Edward Kelley told Congress that the Year 2000 quandary could create enough problems to slow U.S. economic growth...
- Research articles 1998-05-04
- A quick client/server fix - Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group/ICS migrates Seattle Times from mainframe to client/server using fast implementation method - Company Business and Marketing
- The Seattle Times uses SAP R/3 to migrate its Finance Department from a mainframe environment to distributed computing in just under three months. The Seattle Times figured it would take at least 120 days to migrate from a mainframe to client/server, but they "went live" in 88 days,...
- Research articles 1997-06-01
- Migrating legacy data: how to get there from here - data warehousing - includes related articles on selecting a vendor and worldwide revenue - includes table of products - Technology Information
- Creating reports for management has been a hellish proposition at Valero Energy Corp., a $2.8 oil and gas company based in San Antonio. "Every day, hundreds of people do their own file transfers out of DB2 on the mainframe and Quattro Pro or Paradox systems, interpret the data and pass...
- Research articles 1996-01-01
- HDS Skyline Series, World's Fastest Mainframes, Cited as one of 1995's "Most Important Products"
- SANTA CLARA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 14, 1995--Hitachi Data Systems HDS today announced that its industry-leading Skyline Series mainframe processors have won formal recognition by InformationWeek magazine as one of "The Most Important Products of 1995."InformationWeek notes in its December 18 issue that "Model 82, Hitachi's high-end, eight-way mainframe, delivers 780 MIPS...
- Research articles 1995-12-14
- IT services company profiles
- The following profiles review and analyze the major services suppliers in three categories: hardware manufacturers, professional integrators, and management consulting firms. Each category has a unique perspective on IT services and a distinct history of providing those services. The distinctions among these providers are blurring as each finds itself encroaching...
- Research articles 1993-11-26
- Automation stretches mainframe capacity; leaner, automated shops turning focus to user service, extending systems life - Enterprise Systems and Networking
- Leaner, automated shops turning focus to user service, extending systems life Many data center managers who feared that automation would put them out of business are now finding that automation can keep them in business. Data centers are fending off threats of outsourcing and downsizing by using automation...
- Research articles 1993-05-01
- SQL keys opening door to database warehouse; IBM's blueprint for heterogeneous data access relies on IBI, other third parties, to deliver - Information Builders Inc
- No one vendor can do it all anymore. That is increasingly apparent with the number of consortia springing up. It is also apparent with Big Blue's announcement of the IBM International Alliance, when it debuted its Information Warehouse concept for heterogeneous database access in early September. IBM...
- Research articles 1991-12-01
- Early adopters report architecture has pluses; but technical challenges remain formidable - client-server architectures
- EARLY ADOPTERS REPORT ARCHITECTURE HAS PLUSES In the film Star Wars, Luke Skywalker had all the advantages of client/server computing. His servers, R2D2 and C3PO, were there when he needed them. With them around to keep him out of trouble, Luke could concentrate on the war against...
- Research articles 1990-04-01
- Computer system aids management of info at school of management. (Encore Computer Corp.'s Multimax/CARS hardware and software combination) (information management at Boston University)
- Boston University's School of Management upgrades its educational administration by installing a parallel processing computer system with an administrative software package. It selected Encore Computer Corp's Multimax/CARS hardware-and-software information system. Encore ports the CARS administrative software package into the Multimax parallel processing computer system. It met the price-performance test as...
- Research articles 1989-08-01
- IBM's Linux-Only Mainframe Selected by University of Florida for Grid Computing Research at the Advanced Computing and Information Systems Laboratory
- IBM announced today that the University of Florida has selected the Linux-only IBM eServer zSeries 800 as the heart of the university's Advanced Computing and Information Systems ACIS laboratory at the school's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Gainesville, Florida. The sale of the z800 was made by IBM...
- Research articles 1970-01-01
- IBM Mainframes Hold the Industry's Top Hardware and Cryptographic Security Ratings, New Tests Show
- IBM today announced that its premier midrange mainframe, the IBM eServer z890 now joins three other IBM mainframes as the world's only servers with the highest level of hardware security certification, Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 5 (EAL5).
- Research articles 2005-06-10
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- Software Licensing, Business Practices at Heart of IBM Mainframe Criticism
- IBM critics say that Big Blue has used anticompetitive practices to keep its tight hold on the global mainframe market, including withholding software licenses to punish customer and competitors looking to bring legacy workloads to non-IBM systems, and closely tying its mainframe software and hardware. Federal regulators are now taking...
- News items 2009-10-08
- Do it Best Corp. Delivers Web Access to Mainframe Inventory System; ClientSoft's CTO Tool Provides Mainframe Access to Better Serve Customers
- Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MIAMI--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 18, 2002 ClientSoft, the leader in delivering fast and secure integrated applications to legacy systems, has deployed ClientSoft Tanit Objects CTO on the Do it Best Corp. IBM Mainframe, giving its 4,300 independently owned retailers the competitive advantage of direct access to online...
- Research articles 2002-11-18
- Hardware as a commodity?; manufacturers changing software strategies - includes related article entitled 'Object Standard Group Formed'
- Hardware As a Commodity? Makers of midrange and mainframe computers are no longer just talking about software as the key to their growth. Today, most vendors acknowledge that only the precise implementation of a software strategy will allow them to survive.. In most cases, the hardware vendors...
- Research articles 1989-06-01
- Rebuilding a lost legacy: Filling the void created by the implementation of new enterprise software. (Case Study).(Royal Appliance Manufacturing Co. uses Oracle 11i and 9ci Inc. accounting software)
- Webster's defines legacy as something coming from the past, an apt description of the mainframe computer systems that became the foundation of most corporate business processes. Evolving over decades through the accumulation of new hardware and sof Webster's defines legacy as something coming from...
- Research articles 2002-02-01
- MoneyGram Powers Mainframe Server Resource Virtualization and Disaster Recovery System with McDATA Directors
- BROOMFIELD, Colo. -- McDATA Corporation (Nasdaq: MCDTA)(Nasdaq: MCDT), a leading provider of storage networking solutions, today announced that MoneyGram International, Inc. consolidated its storage with the deployment of a SAN based on four McDATA Intrepid 6140 Directors. The SAN supports MoneyGram's requirements around mainframe and open systems server virtualization and...
- Research articles 2005-10-17
- Tao of Programming: Authorized Edition
- This is a bit off topic, but it's useful to anybody in sales and marketing who need to understand the way engineers think. This post contains the entire text of the book The Tao of Programming. It's probably one of the most popular books of computer humor...
- Blog posts 2009-03-28
- IBM's Power charge continues
- IBM's industry analyst meeting last week in Austin, Texas, covered the present and the future of its Power line. This is the system lineup once called the RS/6000 and pSeries into which was more recently folded the iSeries (previously AS/400, System 36, etc.) to form a new family called IBM...
- News items 2009-08-26
- INNOVATION FDRCRYPT Backup Utility to Employ New IBM z9 Mainframe AES Hardware Encryption
- LITTLE FALLS, N.J. -- Coinciding with the 16 September delivery of the first generally available models of the new IBM 2094 System z9tm 109 (z9-109) mainframe, INNOVATION is announcing FDRCRYPT, the first encryption backup utility specifically designed for the IBM z/OS environment; will transparently employ the new CP Assist for...
- Research articles 2005-09-20
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