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Mainframes, particularly IBM ones, aren't known for their ability to allow Windows applications to run on them, but Big Blue has changed all that, or will do so on December 16, 2011, through its zEnterprise Systems. What the company did was, as an “an industry first,“ integrate Microsoft Windows Ap... |
8 November 2011
03:13 GMT |
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In a little over a month, customers running IBM zEnterprise environments will be able to start leveraging Windows application, IBM confirmed on November 7, 2011.
The move is nothing more than IBM making good on a promise from earlier this year, with official Windows support in zEnterprise slated for introduction as... |
8 November 2011
03:02 GMT |
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Mark Shuttleworth has spoken on his blog about the decline of mainframes and the rise of cloud computing, in light of the newly launched Ubuntu Cloud 11.10. The founder of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth, said that although the mainframes (or big iron) is about to get a run for its money with the increasing importance o... |
25 October 2011
05:17 GMT |
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During the ISSCC conference, which takes place right now in San Francisco, California, IBM has detailed its 5.2GHz z196 flagship CPU, which features an 18% higher clock than the previous 4.4GHz z10 processor, while also maintaining a similar thermal envelope.
IBM managed to achieve this feat by moving from 65nm to... |
22 February 2011
05:45 GMT |
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IBM wants to be an open-source software supporter, but only when it suits it. The giant tech company was accused of breaking its pledge to not pursuit open-source companies and projects that might be infringing on some of its many patents. Yet, earlier this week, it did just that, sending TurboHercules, a company tha... |
8 April 2010
05:11 GMT |
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Mainframe computer manufacturer Platform Solutions has just introduced a new and bigger mainframe machine powered by Intel's Itanium processors. The statement comes right after its competitor, IBM, announced the System Z10 series of mainframe computers.Platform Solutions (PSI) is a hardware vendor specialized in... |
28 February 2008
05:48 GMT |
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IBM's mainframe computer has just been officially launched and the company is currently planning on implementing the latest open-source software as well as multi-threading or hybrid processor technologies. IBM's new mainframe, the System z10 is the company's first to be built around a quad-core chip es... |
27 February 2008
02:44 GMT |
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It looks like the latest Intel offering on the chipsets aimed at desktop computer systems and high performance levels is doing pretty good as just a few days after its official launch date there are many motherboards based on it. While most first tier mainboard producers like Asus, Gigabyte and MSI already announced ... |
15 October 2007
03:42 GMT |
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Virtualization is one of the strongest development directions of the computer industry right now as it can lead to a new era of performance in data center environments while keeping running costs at a reasonable level. Because of the many good points that come with this technology, more and more hardware and software... |
12 September 2007
11:25 GMT |
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The adoption of the Linux open source operating system indicates a strong trend of slowing down to a scratching halt, but this is one scenario that the availability of Windows Vista failed to catalyze and to even impact, for that matter. The reason is simple and it involves the server, rather than the client side dis... |
6 September 2007
11:42 GMT |
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Microsoft claims that Linux and UNIX are nothing compared to the Windows operating system in terms of server side solutions. And the perspective offered by the Redmond company reveals not only that Windows Server leaves Linux and UNIX biting the dust, but that not even Mainframe solutions compare to the apex of "reli... |
23 August 2007
14:07 GMT |
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Supercomputing comes from an age when desktop computer systems had just about no worth-mentioning processing power, yet they were priced like crazy. As it was much easier and cheaper to maintain a single supercomputer or mainframe than a huge number of smaller and much less performant systems, the high performance co... |
21 August 2007
10:51 GMT |
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IBM, International Business Machines Corporation, a giant on the market, has just disclosed that they are going to release a newer version of their operating system that was intended for their zSeries. The new OS has better security modules installed and it's a lot more efficient than the previous version. I wil... |
20 August 2007
06:34 GMT |
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IBM is very well known as a producer and vendor of servers and associated services and the big blue company may very well be the most important player on the server and mainframe market field offering to enterprise and corporate customers a large selection of systems ranging from x86 compatible ones to supercomputers... |
17 August 2007
11:08 GMT |
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There are basically two trends on the computer server market, each with its inherent advantages and disadvantages, so consumers are constantly shifting around trying to find the best possible solution for their needs. On one side, we have the powerful behemoths of massive computing: the mainframes and the dedicated l... |
9 August 2007
04:34 GMT |
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IBM is one of the leading manufacturers and vendors of servers and mainframes since the good old days when the first iteration of the System z platform was hot news. Recently, the big and blue company entered the blade server market and now they are already thinking expansion plans in order to maintain their place on... |
6 August 2007
11:12 GMT |
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As data centers grow and their energy bills are almost reaching the market value of the hardware and software platforms that are housed within, a number of companies are trying to reduce their expenses and adopt new technologies that will make them more eco-friendly. According to the site Earth2Tech. "Data center ele... |
3 August 2007
06:26 GMT |
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IBM is maybe the leader of the supercomputer building industry and in June it announced the launch of the next generation Blue Gene/P supercomputer that is much faster than its predecessor and is priced at $1.3 million per rack, according to the news site ComputerWorld. As a marketing move to support and widen the ac... |
2 August 2007
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Every big corporation (even more so in the IT world) has an impressive array of servers that hum day and night and use a lot of electric energy, space and maintenance time. Well, not anymore. Not anymore for IBM, at least, since the company plans to get rid of 3900 servers housed until now in its own data centers and... |
1 August 2007
08:40 GMT |
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IBM hosted a "System z Summit" for customers and industry partners and did something almost unheard of in the world of mainframe manufacture and marketing: they published the sales numbers for System z. Even if most computer users never heard of it, much less saw or used one, the old mainframe still has a place in ou... |
12 July 2007
08:27 GMT |
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Microsoft has applauded the fact that the Windows solution ecosystem continues to flourish as more and more organizations are abandoning mainframe infrastructure and are embracing the Redmond Company's platform. The migration from legacy system to the Windows operating system is backed by an organization spawned... |
29 May 2007
10:50 GMT |
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According to some sources close to the Red Hat and IBM companies, the two players intend to form a partnership through which IBM would sell and support Red Hat Linux software on their mainframe computers, System z. IBM has previously been working with Novell for the sale and development of the SUSE Linux version on t... |
10 May 2007
05:50 GMT |
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