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Forrester: Service Level Shortcomings Are Pervasive & Costly
July 7, 2008
Stephen Swoyer over at Enterprise Systems Journal reports on a new Forrester Research study which finds serious deficiencies in IT service delivery. The study finds that IT only meets Service Level Agreements (SLAs) about 75% of the time. Moreover, business...
Green Data Center Man
July 4, 2008
Will he save the day? Some fun over the long weekend: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZUO5W7O7Gk&NR=1
Open Letter to the Federal Reserve
June 27, 2008
Susan Eustis provides some sage advice to the U.S. Federal Reserve ? and alerts U.S. taxpayers: As a senior industry analyst and member of the press covering the IT industry, it has come to my attention that the IT department...
Mid-June 2008 Potpourri
June 13, 2008
1. Back in February, on the heels of IBM's acquisition of Cognos and coinciding with the System z10 announcement, IBM promised (well, issued a "Statement of Direction") that Cognos Business Intelligence would be available for the mainframe sometime in the...
Still More Potpourri
May 2, 2008
1. Ian Bramley lists his Top 15 Reasons to Stay On/Move To the Mainframe. 2. IBM announces "Getting Started" prices for several WebSphere products running on z/OS. Nobody pays more, but if you need just a little bit of some...
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More Mainframes News... View more Mainframes news and analysis from Computerworld.com. 
Supercomputer seen helping to diagnose osteoporosis July 2, 2008 Researchers from IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology are using an IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer to look for ways to hasten the diagnosis of osteoporosis. 
IBM mainframe acquisition raises antitrust concerns July 2, 2008 A trade group is raising questions about IBM's acquisition of a competing mainframe vendor, Platform Solutions. 
Supercomputer helps with cancer research June 30, 2008 Designing new cancer drugs requires an understanding of the structure of proteins, with more than 90 million images to analyze and interpret. 
Top500 List Ranks Energy Efficiency for First Time June 23, 2008 The latest Top500 supercomputer list measures both performance and, for the first time, power consumption, as the industry copes with rapidly increasing electric bills. 
Microsoft releases near-final beta of HPC Server 2008 June 18, 2008 High Performance Computing Server 2008, based on Windows Server 2008, features high-speed networking, cluster management tools, advanced fail-over capabilities and other features. 
How power-hungry are the Top500 supercomputers? June 18, 2008 The latest Top500 supercomputer list measures both performance and power consumption, as the industry must cope with rapidly increasing electric bills. 
Brief Hiatus October 15, 2007 Hi Folks, This week I want to point you to The Mainframe Update, a new newsletter that Xephon launched last week at www.mainframeupdate.com. This newsletter is designed to bring you information...
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So Long and Thanks for All the Fish October 8, 2007 In October 1985 the very first CICS Update was put together. Since the summer that year, articles had been coming in to the Xephon office. Created on an Apple II using the Zardax word processing...
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Compliance, data storage, and Titans September 30, 2007 The Titans, in Greek mythology, were originally twelve powerful gods. They were later overthrown by Zeus and the Olympian gods. I'm not talking about them. Nor am I talking about the fictional...
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How Green Was My Valley ? and how green are my computers? September 24, 2007 How Green Was My Valley is a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn and a 1941 film directed by John Ford. It was written and filmed in the days when green was just a colour and not an aspirational life...
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Office of the future? September 17, 2007 It had to happen ? I was bound to be sent a DOCX file. This is the new file type associated with Microsoft Office 2007. It?s all to do with the Office Open XML format Microsoft is keen on, and, of...
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Social networking September 17, 2007 Someone was telling me that some top IT people who write blogs regularly and have a presence on Facebook and Myspace, etc are now so busy with these Web-based interactions that they don?t have time...
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Facebook ? cocaine for the Internet generation? September 10, 2007 It was only a couple of weeks ago that I was blogging about social networks on the Internet and how I thought that Facebook was being colonized by older people not just students and other youngsters....
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The ?dinosaur? lives on September 3, 2007 I can still remember those distant days of the 1990s when everyone you spoke to ?knew? that mainframes were doomed to extinction, and dates were confidently predicted when the last one would be...
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Where am I? August 27, 2007 I am just back from China and suffering from the usual affects of jet lag ? so just a short blog (you?ll be pleased to hear). I thought I?d pass on lots of Chinese wisdom, but you?ve probably heard...
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Viper 2 August 6, 2007 Last week I was talking about AIX 6, which IBM is making available as an open beta ? which means anyone can test it out so long as they report their findings to IBM. This week I want to talk about...
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Good news for AIX users? July 30, 2007 IBM has announced that it is making available an open beta of AIX Version 6.1 ? an upgrade to the currently available version of AIX. Now, the questions that immediately spring to mind are: is this a...
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A year in blogs July 23, 2007 Without wishing to get all mushy about it, this is my blog?s birthday! It?s one-year old today. This is blog 52 and blog 1 was published on the 19th July 2006. I?ve tried to comment on...
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The times they are a-changin? July 16, 2007 Today (Monday 16 July 2007) is my youngest daughter?s 21st birthday ? so happy birthday to Jennifer. I started to think how things were different 21 years ago from how they are today ? and hence I...
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Where can you go for help? July 9, 2007 You?re an IBM mainframe user, where can you go for help with your mainframe problems? (If you were thinking of more personal problems, you?re reading the wrong blog!!) Well, my obvious answer would...
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Let?s hear it for Power6 July 2, 2007 A while ago I mentioned in this blog about IBM?s ECLipz project ? their unannounced and mainly rumoured plan to create a single chip for System i, System p, and System z (hence the last three letters...
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Mainframe Job Seekers Rejoice! June 27, 2007 Today, our friends at z/Journal launched a Mainframe Job board dedicated to helping mainframe professionals locate new career opportunities quickly and effectively. Additionally, if you have jobs...
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IBM acquisitive and dynamic June 25, 2007 It looks like IBM has a plan. A number of recent events seem to indicate that IBM has decided how it wants things to look this time next year, and has started to set about making it happen. What am I...
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SOA still making an impact June 18, 2007 IBM?s SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) conference, IMPACT 2007, attracted nearly 4,000 attendees to Orlando, Florida. IBM used the occasion to make some software and services announcements. IBM...
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Virtualization ? a beginner?s guide to products June 11, 2007 Let?s start with a caveat: I?m calling this a beginner?s guide not a complete guide ? so, if you know of a product that I haven?t mentioned, sorry, I just ran out of space. Now the thing is, on a...
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When is a mainframe not a mainframe? June 4, 2007 The April/May 2007 issue of z/Journal (http://zjournal.tcipubs.com/issues/zJ.Apr-May07.pdf) has an interesting article by Philip H Smith III entitled, ?The state of IBM mainframe emulation?....
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The Color Purple May 28, 2007 OK, I?ve stolen the title from Steven Spielberg?s 1985 film ? or from the title of Alice Walker?s 1982 novel. And this blog has nothing to do with racism, but it is to do with colours ? the colours...
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We hate Microsoft ? or is it Microsoft hates everybody else!! May 21, 2007 Let?s make it clear, this isn?t a personal rant ? although I am finding the lack of Vista drivers for devices that happily attached to my XP laptop a bit frustrating ? it?s a look at recent news...
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Aglets ? a new way for mobile computing May 14, 2007 I must have been messing around at the back of the class recently, because I have only just heard of aglets ? a portmanteau word created from agent and applet ? that run with distributed DB2...
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