…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…
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The IBM Edge conference promises to be a great event. The conference features many benefits for IBM Customers and Partners. Over the course of a week in Las Vegas, IBM will feature customer case studies, technical labs, and hands-on product presentations. A few of the conference highlights include:…
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 latest innovations, IBM suggested, would drive reporting and analytics results as much as 25 times faster…
A company running an obsolete z890 two-way machine with what amounted to 0.88 processors (332 MIPS) planned a migration to a distributed system consisted of 36 distributed UNIX servers. The production workload consisted of applications, database, testing, development, security, and more. Five years later, the company was running the same in the 36-server multi-core (41x more cores than the z890) distributed environment only its four-year TCO went from $4.9 million to $17.9 million based on an IBM Eagle study. The lesson, the Eagle team notes: Cores drive platform costs in distributed systems…
Businesses are changing the ways they connect with and interact with customers using mobile devices and social computing. Thousands of smart phones are accessing critical information in data centers around the world. Making sure data stays secure has never been more important than it is today. We've seen examples just over the past few weeks where major businesses are losing mindshare because of their inability to keep their perimeters secure. However, at the same time, we're seeing examples of businesses and organizations using their data in unique new ways to deliver a richer, more personalized customer experience…
Check out the Session Preview tool and get an early preview of the great sessions Impact2013 has to offer!…
IBM never claims that every workload is suitable for the zEnterprise. However, with the advent of hybrid computing, the low cost z114, and now the expected low cost version of the zEC12 later this year you could make a case for any workload that benefits from the reliability, security, and efficiency of the z is fair game…
A couple of weeks ago I looked at the year-end results posted by IBM, with the System z, led by the zEC12, leading the gains. Despite some tough quarters earlier in 2012, the System z has been on quite a roll; in 4Q12 it experienced 56% year to year revenue growth, the strongest since 2000…
About a week ago an interesting question was posed to the members of our Enterprise Systems Group on LinkeIn and I want to share that question along with two very interesting responses in this Blog…
