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Con-way Freight’s Modernization Journey Using SOA
This article reviews the Con-way Freight’s efforts to find a way to make it easy to change and reuse its strategic applications while retaining the advantages of the System z. |
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What’s New With Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for System z? : Under the Covers
This article details the many features of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES 11). |
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Historic Marist College Embraces Mainframe’s Future
This is an article about Marist College where the next generation of mainframe administrators with IBM System z, IBM z/VM and IBM System Storage are being educated. |
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zFirewall: Where, When, and How to Deploy
The firewall question continues to bubble to the foreground as consolidation efforts in the enterprise reach new levels. This article discusses where, when, how, and even if a firewall is needed. |
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Straight Talk for Mainframe Executives: Right-Fitting Applications Into Consolidated Environments—An Interview With IBM’s Monte Bauman
Monte Bauman is an IBM-certified System z IT specialist who is applying his more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry to help customers leverage IBM’s new specialty processors. In the following interview, he shares insights on how IBM can help customers choose the optimal consolidation or virtualization platform to reduce IT costs. |
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Miami-Dade County IT Continues Focus on Premium Customer Service
This story of Miami-Dade County, FL, IT is about customer service in the form of reliable, easy to use applications that address every phase of county business—and careful planning that accounts for all options to deliver premium computing at a cost that optimizes taxpayer dollars. |
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Consolidating Enterprise Open System Backup on the Mainframe
This article describes the advantages of backing up large numbers of servers from a single server as a single job, saving time and aggravation instead of needing to manage backups on each individual and often geographically dispersed server. |
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Savings as a Service
This article describes why Transzap decided to move its applications from an increasingly growing and complex Intel technology-based server farm to a more consolidated IBM System z Linux OS-only infrastructure to host its Oracle database environment. |
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Baldor Electric’s System z10 1 Percent Solution
This article describes how Baldor has driven down its IT costs as a percentage of the company’s sales to 1 percent by standardizing on SAP on Linux on an IBM System z10 mainframe, and by migrating other applications to Linux on the mainframe. As it moves more applications from several large Sun servers to its z10, Baldor expects to even further lower its IT costs. |
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Compiling and Debugging Applications for Linux on System z
This article provides an overview of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and some accompanying programs such as the GNU assembler and linker. |
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Top-10 Mistakes Made by CIOs & Top IT Managers
This article discusses the top-10 biggest mistakes made by CIOs and top IT managers. |
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Straight Talk for Mainframe Executives: An Interview With IBM’s Dr. Gururaj Rao—The Mainframe’s Positioning, Capabilities & Value
An Interview with Gururaj Rao, IBM Fellow, systems chief engineer, IBM Systems & Technology Group, talking about the future of the System z. |
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Sanity Check: Downsizing, Rightsizing, and Fantasizing
This article shows that the mainframe excels as a hub for a utility computing environment (aka cloud computing) and it can actually deliver on lowering TCO. |
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KMD’s Simple Migration From an HP Cluster to an IBM Mainframe
This article describes the significant advantage KMD, Denmark’s largest locally owned IT service provider, gained by migrating their homegrown application, called Perspektiv, from an HP 9000 cluster to an onsite IBM mainframe. |
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Configuring Linux to Authenticate to the z/VM LDAP Server
This article discusses how to configure the LDAP server on z/VM and how to integrate it into a Linux security infrastructure. |
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Going Mobile
Read here how the release of version 8.4, IBM’s Cognos 8 BI for Linux on System z demonstrates its commitment to address the business and IT needs of System z customers. |
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The Mainframe Revival: An Interview With CA’s Chris O’Malley
An interview with Chris O’Malley, executive vice president and general manager for CA’s Mainframe Business Unit. A 23-year veteran of the IT industry, he is responsible for defining and executing CA’s mainframe strategy. He talks about CA’s new mainframe initiatives, and how they will impact mainframe sites and the development of System z’s next-generation workforce. |
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IT Virtualization: Achieving Data Security Using Linux on System z
This article highlights the key advantages of Linux on the System z and shows why combining Linux with IBM System z creates an ideal virtualization platform for distributed and centralized applications with special focus on security. |
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Linux on System z Hits the Mainstream
This technical oriented article shows the advantages of Linux on the IBM mainframe out of different perspectives. |
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atsec information security evaluates IBM PR/SM z10 EC/BC at Common Criteria Certification EAL 5
This article is describes the very successful partnership of atsec as evaluation lab, IBM as sponsor, and BSI as certification body in recent PR/SM certifications led to development of the EAL5 evaluation methodology provided by BSI (AIS34), which forms a sound basis for such high-assurance evaluations. |
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IBM’s System z Linux Strategy: A Discussion With Inna Kuznetsova, Director of Cross-IBM Linux Strategy
In this article Inna Kuznetsova, director of cross-IBM Linux Strategy, describes IBM’s Linux strategy in general, and recent sales and marketing successes on IBM’s System z mainframe in particular. |
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OpenSSL Performance for Linux on System z: Exploiting the Crypto Express2 Accelerator
This article shows the advantages of using the Crypto Express2 (CEX2) Accelerator for Linux on System z to secure data by encrypting it. |
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Still Not Dead: More Evidence of Healthy Growth in Mainframe Workloads
This article shows how IBM has been working to keep the mainframe and the enterprise data center current with changes happening in the world. It launched its green computing initiative with the System z at the heart of massive server consolidation designed to reduce both energy and labor costs. |
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Transzap Moves to System z for Three 9’s Uptime
Transzap is a SaaS provider that made a strategic decision to move from an open and distributed computing environment to an open computing environment constructed around System z. |
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Mainframe Sales Increasing in Southeast Asia, India, and China
This article focuses on IBM’s mainframe business growth in Asia Pacific and highlights some of the latest customer wins. |
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Main Man - Cheaper Than Your Grandpa's Mainframes
This article describes Novell’s view on how it works, the virtualization with Linux on the Mainframe. If you'll have to select virtualization software to create your virtualization environment, the choice -consolidating workloads onto mainframes - is often overlooked, but now is becoming more popular. |
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Consolidating Enterprise Open System Backup on the Mainframe
This article describes IT’s responsibility to ensure that data is continuously available and can be quickly recovered in case the active copy is damaged or unavailable. That means backing up data belonging to AIX, Linux, UNIX, Windows and, increasingly, data belonging to applications that run under Linux on System z. |
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Networking With Linux on System z
This article presents a short overview of the layered structures of today’s network architectures as well as the networking features provided by the IBM System z mainframe and how they’re used under Linux. Page 6-12. |
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Open Letter to IT: Now Is the Time to Act on Big Savings
‘It’s time to act on big savings!’ as the author say’s in this article. He describes clearly why the mainframe is the most cost-efficient platform for new workloads running virtualized Linux images. |
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Perfect match: BI solutions
Karl Freund, IBM vice president of strategy and marketing for the System z platform, discusses BI on the mainframe. |
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Leading the Pack
Great article about IBM’s leading position with it’s powerful Linux-on-z/VM extreme virtualization/consolidation solution on System z. |
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State of Oklahoma Department of Human Services: Making a Difference for the Business & Consolidating Servers
This article shows how Oklahoma Department of Human Services achieved green initiative goals and reached a flexible, scalable and cost-effective environment by migrating from HP-Unix to Linux on System z. |
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Changing the Industry’s Mindset About the Mainframe: Viewpoints From IBM’s System z General Manager Anne Altman
This article describes Anne Altman’s work, background and future strategy as General Manager of System z and it shows the revenue increase of System z in 2008 with a very high growth of Linux. |
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Sanity Check: Scattered Computing
This article analysis the problems of a scattered computing environment that many large enterprises have and shows how z/VM and Linux on System z, along with the mainframe’s approach to logical partitioning, serve as the industry’s guiding light for how to deal with scalability problems. |
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Virtualized System z Brings Green Computing to Highmark
This article highlights the IT green initiative of Highmark by first virtualizing significant numbers of Linux servers on the Systems z. |
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