Transactional integrity is part and parcel of the mainframe era, but it is undergoing some shifts in the age of the Web. Development leaders are finding this as throngs of front-end Web users 'hit' the back-end mainframe. It is left up to the software architect to balance dueling system objectives.
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In the latest evolution of its Linux push, IBM has added to its non-x86 Linux server line with the introduction of new dedicated Power 7 rack and blade servers that only run Linux. “Hah”, you say! “Power already runs Linux, and quite well according to IBM”. This is indeed true, but when you look at the price/performance of Linux on standard Power, the picture is not quite as advantageous, with the higher cost of Power servers compared to x86 servers offsetting much if not all of the performance advantage.
IBM is introducing new offerings to make it easier for business partners and clients to create "patterns of expertise," a new software capability first introduced as part of IBM's PureSystems family of expert integrated systems.
CA Technologies today announced that its ground-breaking, next-generation mainframe management solution, CA Mainframe Chorus, was selected as one of the “best of the best” of Long Island’s software products for 2012.
Over the past three decades, ASG Software Solutions has built a solid reputation as a provider of infrastructure automation software, primarily for IBM mainframe environments, which constitutes 90 percent of its customer base. Thanks to several recent acquisitions, the software company is now providing solutions to help customers automate their cloud environments, too.
AMP has enjoyed a working relationship with CSC since 1993, and the announcement, made by the two companies today, expands upon the existing managed-services contract.
Vanguard Integrity Professionals today announced that Ron Ross, a fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and leading expert in information security and risk management, will be a keynote speaker at Vanguard Security & Compliance 2012. Ross's address entitled, "Next Generation Safeguards and Countermeasures: Building Effective Cyber Security Programs for Cloud Computing Environments" will provide attendees with critical information about protecting cloud computing environments from attack. Vanguard Security & Compliance is the world's largest educational forum dedicated to modern information technology security training for System z®.
Alebra Technologies announced today that it has introduced a special program for current users of EMC’s InfoMover who wish to upgrade their file transfer capabilities. Like EMC’s InfoMover product, Alebra Technologies’ Parallel Data Mover (PDM), in conjunction with Alebra’s innovative z/OpenGate transport, provides efficient and fast off-network file transfers. Additionally, PDM and z/OpenGate offers a number of significant advantages, including:
BMC Software, the recognized leader in Business Service Management (BSM), today announced that the City of Long Beach, California has improved its delivery of IT services with the BMC Control-M Workload Automation solution. With the new solution in place, the city can better manage and control its scheduled workloads across a hybrid data center to cost-efficiently streamline processes, detect issues and improve service.
The City of Long Beach has earned recognition as a Top-10 Digital City for its strength in embracing current technology to improve the delivery of city services while minimizing costs. Playing to this strength is the city’s selection of the BMC Control-M Workload Automation solution for managing and scheduling IT workloads that support municipal processes. The city selected the tool based on its ability to manage scheduled work across the entire hybrid datacenter. This functionality is paramount as the city migrates off the mainframe to a fully distributed environment. The new system also provides a self-service portal to enable business users to manage tasks, generate reports and maintain records without using IT staff resources.
“With the previous software tools we used, we could not see what was happening with our scheduled processing throughout our entire datacenter, which impaired time and cost efficiency,” said Rusty Clark, data center supervisor, City of Long Beach. “Those issues have been fixed with the single point of control delivered by BMC Control-M. Moreover, we can readily identify issues with precision to ensure workload processing occurs on time and without error.”
As part of this project, the city has also implemented the following solutions:
