In IT, we’ve been fixing company problems large and small for decades and meeting the challenges of highly technical demands, whatever they may be. But now we have a major problem of our own. It’s a labor shortage that’s nothing short of a crisis. And it demands the same kind of innovative solutions we’re used to delivering every day in our jobs. …
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CA Performance Management Enables Service Provider to Enhance its Commitment to Offering an Exceptional Customer Experience…
Worldwide IT operations management (ITOM) software revenue totalled $18 billion in 2012, up 4.8 per cent from $17 billion in 2011, according to final results from Gartner, Inc. However, Gartner said that the "Big Four" ITOM vendors - IBM, CA Technologies, BMC Software and HP - surrendered market share in 2012, while a new generation of ITOM vendors grew significantly faster than the market…
Two New Hadoop Offerings and DMX Innovations Bring Benefits of Better ETL through Hadoop and Better Hadoop with Enhanced ETL…
An Interview With Lloyd Carney, CEO of Brocade
Enterprise Executive recently caught up with Brocade Communications (Brocade) CEO Lloyd Carney to discuss the company’s long history of providing networking technologies supporting both ESCON and FICON, its relationship with IBM and growth opportunities in the mainframe market…
There’s more than one way to save on CPU consumption. Moving workloads to System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) engines has been a popular option. However, many organizations are also exploring using IBM’s DB2 Analytics Accelerator (IDAA) as an option for lowering costs and optimizing the performance of the mainframe. IDAA is a specialty machine that offers faster and more predictable response times for long-running, unpredictable queries. It does this by reducing database tuning efforts and off-loading query workloads. If you’re looking into moving workloads to IDAA, here are some important factors to consider…
The University of Florida (UF) sought to help students stay connected with university activities and news. With 50,000 students and staff using smartphones—and that number rising quickly—the Gainesville, FL, university realized it needed to develop an information-rich mobile Web application. An IBM System z mobile technology solution provided the foundation for its UF Mobile Web…
The IBM CICS Transaction Server Feature Pack for Mobile Extensions
V1.0 Introduces Native Support for JSON Data in CICS
Top 3 Mobile Concerns
According to a 2011 “IBM Tech Trends Report,” these are the top concerns:
1. Security/Privacy (53 percent)
2. Cost of developing for multiplatform (52 percent)
3. Integrating cloud service with mobile (51 percent)…
The IBM CICS Transaction Server Feature Pack for Mobile Extensions
V1.0 Introduces Native Support for JSON Data in CICS
The IT industry is undergoing a mobile transformation as the explosion of mobile devices in the marketplace has driven service providers, such as banks and utility companies, to offer mobile applications. The proliferation of mobile devices brings a new raft of challenges to application developers as they do battle with competing platforms, frameworks and technologies—and this is just on the mobile device. This doesn’t even begin to address the additional complexity of connecting to existing enterprise services, many built long before mobile devices appeared on the scene…
As companies continue to rely on the cloud to deliver their more business-critical systems, they must consider how much they can trust this new paradigm. For a cloud solution to be robust enough to host the most important systems, it must be built on top of a virtualization stack that can deliver the necessary service levels…
