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Performance - An Information On Demand strategy helps deliver a competitive edge for today’s businesses

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July 2008 | by James Reed

A Study of Competitors’ Systems

e-Newsletter Exclusive | Ben, a fictitious IT director, compares the IBM mainframe to other hardware products

December 2008

BI and the Mainframe

Administrator | Mainframe keeps up with BI needs; IBMers debunk the top three myths surrounding BI implementation on System z

November 2008

The Gen Xer's Guide to the Mainframe Part III

e-Newsletter Exclusive | A newly appointed young IT director is set on migrating his company away from the mainframe, only to research and be won over by all the selling points of the IBM System z platform.

July 2008

The Gen Xer’s Guide to the Mainframe Part II

June 2008

Beyond These Walls

Web Exclusive | Thanks to the New Enterprise Data Center model, the data center is becoming much more streamlined and cost effective, allowing IT departments to spend their money on more than just maintenance and energy costs.

June 2008

The Dos and Don’ts of RACF Performance

e-Newsletter Exclusive | Learn how to improve the performance of RACF installations, starting with reviewing and testing systems programming carefully before implementation.

April 2008

Why Consolidate on the Mainframe?

Administrator | Because the mainframe’s reliability, security, scalability and performance has always been at the forefront of technology innovation, the System z platform allows IT to harness that innovation to accomplish core strategic goals to the organization.

March 2008

Why Choose the Mainframe?

e-Newsletter Exclusive | Because the mainframe’s reliability, security, scalability and performance has always been at the forefront of technology innovation, the System z platform allows IT to harness that innovation to accomplish core strategic goals to the organization.

February 2008

Add Some zIIP to Your Mainframe

Cover Story | The zIIP is designed so that a program can work with z/OS to have a portion of its work directed to it. Because the zIIP processes specific work, capacity is freed up on the CPU to do other tasks, a win-win situation.

November 2007

The Three Stupidest Reasons Why Not to Buy a Mainframe

Administrator | IT buyers who look at mainframe TCO should find that mainframes are less expensive to operate than distributed systems environments, in part because of reduced staffing needs. Taken with the fact that mainframes are clearly not old technology, these three arguments hold no ground against exploring the possibility of mainframe implementation.

October 2007

Accelerating Enterprise Application Modernization

Administrator | Modernizing existing applications rather than replacing them is a time-tested approach to competitive advantage in the financial-services industry.

September 2007

The Mainframe Energy Efficiency Value: Part 2

e-Newsletter Exclusive | Energy costs related to supplying power as well as the costs to cool/air condition datacenters can far exceed the cost to operate systems/storage environments. It’s important to move away from systems and storage devices that waste energy, but it’s of even greater importance to attack the macro problem of managing energy efficiently throughout an entire datacenter.

August 2007

Performance/The Mainframe Energy Efficiency Value Proposition

e-Newsletter Exclusive | By building a scaled-up environment that operates on the principle of sharing resources, mainframe design trumps distributed computing architecture when it comes to energy consumption.

July 2007

Quality Assurance You Can Take to the Bank

Features | The new IBM Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence can help transform back-office processes and databases to solutions that reduce risk, time to completion and project costs.

July 2007

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