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Late 2012 zEnterprise Action
In a flurry of December activity, IBM announced the German manufacturer, ARBURG GmbH, upgraded to two z114 machines. In addition, a pair of Australian companies, Tonkin Consulting and Harris Farm...
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System z Clouds Pay Off
From its introduction last August, IBM has aimed the zEC12 at cloud use cases, especially private clouds. The zEC12’s massive virtualization capabilities make it possible to handle private cloud...
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Winning the Talent War with the System z
The next frontier in the ongoing talent war, according to McKinsey, will be deep analytics, a critical weapon required to probe big data in the competition underpinning new waves of productivity,...
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zEC12 Drives Buoyant IBM Results
IBM posted strong 4Q 2012 and full year 2012 financials on Tuesday. So strong that the results beat Wall Street’s expectations, as did the technology bellwether’s guidance for the current year. The...
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Getting the Payback from System z Outsourcing
A survey from Compuware Corporation on attitudes of CIOs toward mainframe outsourcing showed a significant level of dissatisfaction with one or another aspect of mainframe outsourcing. Check out the...
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New Announcements Fuel zEnterprise Rebound
A couple of weeks ago DancingDinosaur looked at the year-end results posted by IBM, with the z, led by the zEC12, leading the gains. Despite some tough quarters earlier in 2012, the System z has been...
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IBM Gets Serious About Mobile
Just last week IBM announced IBM MobileFirst, a multi-product initiative to pull together a comprehensive mobile computing platform. There was nothing in the announcement specific to the zEnterprise,...
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zEC12 for Social Business
Given Doug Balog’s comments a couple of weeks ago and reported by DancingDinosaur here it should be no surprise that alongside mobile another high priority non-traditional System z workload would be...
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Lessons from IBM Eagle- zEnterprise TCO Analyses
Lessons from IBM Eagle-IBM Systems z TCO Analyses A company running an obsolete z890 2-way machine with what amounted to 0.88 processors (332 MIPS) planned a migration to a distributed system...
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Oracle’s Tough 3Q and New SPARC Chip
Almost like a good news/bad news joke, Oracle announced dismal financials last week along with the next rev of its SPARC processor. The company clearly is hoping that the new processor will revive its...
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IBM Big Data Innovations Heading to System z
Earlier this week IBM announced new technologies intended to help companies and governments tackle Big Data by making it simpler, faster and more economical to analyze massive amounts of data. Its...
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IBM FlashSystem Remakes Data Center Economics
Yesterday IBM announced the IBM FlashSystem, to drive Flash technology further into the enterprise. The IBM FlashSystem is a line of all-Flash storage appliances based on technology IBM acquired from...
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Next Generation zEnterprise Developers
Mainframe development keeps getting more complicated. The latest complication can be seen in Doug Balog’s reference to mobile and social business on the zEnterprise, reported by DancingDinosaur here a...
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New Ways to Lower System z Costs
The latest System z capacity offerings offer new ways to boost z usage at lower cost. The offerings were developed jointly with z users in response to their specific business requirements. The...
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zEnterprise vs. Intel Server Farms
How many Intel x86 servers do you need to match the performance of a zEnterprise and at what cost for a given workload? That is the central question every IT manager has to answer. It is a question...
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A look at IBM Edge 2013 tracks: Storage, PureSystems & more
Nobody ever accused this blogger of being executive caliber but that hasn’t stopped me from rummaging around the Executive Track offerings at IBM Edge 2013 coming up Jun 10-14 in Las Vegas. Called the...
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IBM Technical Edge 2013 Tackles Flash – Big Data – Cloud & More
IBM Edge 2013 kicks off in just one week, 6/10 and runs through 6/14. Still time to register. This blogger will be there through 6/13. You can follow me on Twitter for conference updates @Writer1225....
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IBM Brings Cloud Applications to the C-Suite
On Tuesday IBM introduced a set of cloud applications intended to help C-suite executives accelerate innovation around customer experience for the purpose of meeting their business objectives in...
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System z Wins IBM Platform Financials Race
The tension that has been dogging IBM since the 1Q 2013 financials eased a bit Wednesday with the release of the company’s 2Q 2013 financials. The financial analysts had been nervous following the...
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New zEnterprise Business Class Entry Model—zBC12
IBM introduced its new zEnterprise Business Class machine, the equivalent of the z114 for the zEC12, the zEnterprise BC12 (zBC12). It offers significantly more power than its predecessor but the...
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