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Distributed Servers do spend a lot of time doing nothing.
March 10, 2010
Some of you may recall the debate I had with a Sun engineer here over the merits of the mainframe v distributed servers. One of his points was that while his arguement was bolstered by "standard" benchmarks which IBM does...
Mid-January 2010 Mainframe Potpourri
January 15, 2010
It's once again time for some mainframe potpourri ? those pseudo-random news items that have piled up in my inbox. At 1:00 p.m. New York time on January 19, 2010, IBM is hosting a teleconference entitled "Making Data Warehousing and...
50 Years Ago: The IBM 1401
December 17, 2009
I missed the exact 50th anniversary date, but here's a terrific short documentary celebrating the landmark IBM 1401 computer...and, more importantly, its people: The IBM 1401 was so wildly popular that IBM provided optional 1401 emulation on the System/360 mainframes...
Another New Mainframe Customer...and It's a Big One
December 17, 2009
BC Card, the largest credit card company in Korea, has announced that they have chosen IBM System z as their next generation IT infrastructure. The company has never had a mainframe before. They have chosen System z10, z/OS, CICS Transaction...
z - that's a cloud, right? well if a Vblock is.
December 4, 2009
It's not new to say the "cloud" is like a mainframe reimplemented for distributed IP-based networks, but I was a little surprised at a briefing event from EMC this week, to see it was positioning bundles from VMware, EMC and...
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More Mainframes News View more Mainframes news and analysis from Computerworld.com
IBM offers de-duplication for mainframes February 24, 2010 IBM announced the availability of an appliance that de-duplicates data being backed up for mainframes, offering as much as a 25:1 data reduction ratio.
The supercomputer on your desktop February 16, 2010 Some medical research and auto-design simulations, once the purview of only the largest computers, are now routinely done on the desktop.
U.S., EU, Russia set aside $13.6M for exascale software work February 12, 2010 A group of G8 countries have joined in a program to offer funding for projects that develop software for the next generation of supercomputers.
IBM's Jeopardy-playing machine can now beat human contestants February 11, 2010 IBM's Jeopardy-playing supercomputer is now capable of beating human Jeopardy contestants on a regular basis, but has a ways to go before it takes on the likes of 74-time champion Ken Jennings.
Intel ships next-generation Itanium chip February 2, 2010 Intel on Tuesday said it has started shipping its new Itanium processor codenamed Tukwila, after multiple delays and development problems stalled its release for years.
Looking for job security? Try Cobol December 31, 2009 As long as there are mainframes, there will be Cobol. Learn the language and the culture and you might land a job that that lasts until retirement
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=2dzBA2SskxA:m5VGOgy5BvA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/2dzBA2SskxA" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=ndQWMrYBSg4:4DGIQpMHTes:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/ndQWMrYBSg4" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=qh0YEUeNSBM:7yTKjiMXugA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/qh0YEUeNSBM" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=-FkGu8VOxC4:zGilAReVeuk:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/-FkGu8VOxC4" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=8pjsCF691bU:HhBCOt6GUm0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/8pjsCF691bU" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=lSy7Hed97DU:RAnAiM6qhW4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/lSy7Hed97DU" height="1" width="1"/
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....br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=FulvaktgdLY:kHciwgIXKoo:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/FulvaktgdLY" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=0svY6AnF1UQ:yomatuFH6B0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/0svY6AnF1UQ" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=2JAF_aUNqTU:eo9J_FEyiE4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/2JAF_aUNqTU" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=zHByaXoqbFE:uujJ7OuBmq8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/zHByaXoqbFE" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=oNDaFfHxV-w:5VBwUeov09s:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/oNDaFfHxV-w" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=Fp_nd2cWZMs:iKwxJNlPdFY:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/Fp_nd2cWZMs" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=DPKjSmjVdNw:Xdi8ShYK3gE:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/DPKjSmjVdNw" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=Q6xhlFXAur0:J9_ghP04fEU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/Q6xhlFXAur0" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=C-Qo--vYXG8:TR9xSkRBhoM:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/C-Qo--vYXG8" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=I5AkiTM2oX8:hbYiLlUKoWM:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/I5AkiTM2oX8" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=q620bl6syOM:xRtgdQTugsU:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/q620bl6syOM" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=6bBZaaWis4U:wf6aY3BDhSw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/6bBZaaWis4U" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=Tv3IEiR1zTA:h4ciVZNDxR8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/Tv3IEiR1zTA" height="1" width="1"/
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?....br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=iwPFtwathek:aRaYqo4GmEA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/iwPFtwathek" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=umkQvvaP8Bs:e0bSAnYWo_Y:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/umkQvvaP8Bs" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=-2oi1aZGsQg:HXJyve2tDzs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/-2oi1aZGsQg" height="1" width="1"/
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...br/ br/ please visit http://www.mainframeweekly.com for more information.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?a=zZ6djXAWP7M:SH3EsMCQcl0:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MainframeWeekly?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MainframeWeekly/~4/zZ6djXAWP7M" height="1" width="1"/
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