We are making a slight tweak to the name of our magazine, Mainframe Executive; as well as it’s tagline that now says, IT Management in the Mainframe Centric Enterprise. To better align the magazine with the hybrid architecture and platform consolidation taking place in today’s large enterprises, the magazine’s new name is, Enterprise Executive; and the new tagline is, The Magazine for IT Managers in the World’s Largest Multi-Platform Enterprises…
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Because of the terrific response to our Mainframe Trivia Contest 20112: #1 we decided to randomly select four winners. Each winner will receive the mainframe t-shirt they selected when responding. The winners are: Rich Jacks, Annette Simmons, Jeff Kaplan and John Gruenberg…
It’s back! Started more than three years ago, our Mainframe Trivia Contest is back and this time winners have the choice of winning any one our nine terrific mainframe-centric t-shirts at http://www.mainframezone.com/store…
T’is the season of discounts, and it apparently applies to the zEnterprise as much as it does to holiday gifts. This deal, however, does not appear to end with the holiday. DancingDinosaur supports anything IBM does to lower enterprise data center costs…
Warren Buffett has long avoided investing in high technology companies preferring instead to invest vast sums of money in such traditional American companies as Coca-Cola, Gillette, and Wells Fargo Bank. So when he finally decides to invest billions of dollars in a high technology company you better know he has done his homework and has tremendous faith and confidence in this company…
After telegraphing the arrival of x86 blades running Windows for months, Doris Conti, System z Marketing, made it official last week announcing Windows blades for the z running in the zBX. That was just one piece of a slew of zEnterprise-related announcements Conti made when briefing analysts the day prior to the official Oct. 12 announcement…
As an information technology (IT) research analyst, I receive regular invites to industry events (because the event sponsors hope that I will share their stories with a broader audience). But my motivation for attending these events is to conduct information technology research. I have no qualms about approaching IT professionals whom I don’t know (including teachers, students, IT practitioners, IT executives and vendors) and asking their opinions of various technologies, products and industry trends. And a high percentage of these individuals are usually willing to share their opinions (as long as I don’t mention their organizations in my research)…
A white paper from Micro Focus reports that "CIOs are increasingly questioning whether the mainframe will continue to be a strategic platform in the future." Written by Standish Group and based on its CIO survey that found 70% of respondents said the mainframe provides a central, strategic role currently. However, none of the CIOs consider the mainframe as a strategic platform in 5-10 years time…
