Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:57 AM/EST
IT organizations are wrestling with more complexity than ever. It wasn’t supposed to be that way, but with the advent of virtualization and cloud computing there are not only more application workloads per physical machine to manage, those workloads are...
Wednesday, May 09, 2012 1:42 PM/EST
With more information being accessible than ever, there is obviously a lot more interest these days in mining large amounts information to create additional business value. The issue that many organizations are wrestling with today is determining the most cost-effective...
Monday, May 07, 2012 12:49 PM/EST
When it comes to cloud computing the first thing that IT organizations need to realize is that not all application workloads are created equal, which by extension means that neither are all clouds. Speaking at a recent IBM Smarter Computing...
Friday, April 13, 2012 2:35 PM/EST
While most organizations these days are interested in modernizing existing legacy applications to one degree or another, there’s always a fair amount of unspoken dread about taking on such a project. The reason for this is simple; the older an...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 11:29 AM/EST
They say COBOL is a dead language that ranks right up there with Latin in terms of its contribution to human development. But unlike Latin, applications based on COBOL are not only used every day to provide some of the...
Friday, April 06, 2012 2:20 PM/EST
They say you can’t teach a dog, never mind a database, new tricks. But in an IBM webcast that can be found here, Bob Magid, IMS Tools Architect, makes it clear that the venerable IMS hierarchical database from IBM is...
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 4:09 PM/EST
The total cost of managing IT has been a top of mind issue for most organizations ever since the economy took a nose dive. Given the fact that the cost of labor remains one of the highest components of the...
Monday, March 19, 2012 2:07 PM/EST
The days of the single-purpose application developer who is conversant in only one primary language are numbered. In their place we’re witnessing the rise of more nimble teams of developers that are leveraging integrated development environments (IDE) based on Eclipse...
Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:27 AM/EST
As more IT organizations begin to better understand the value of bringing their mainframe and distributed computing systems together under a common management framework, the next logical step in the process becomes finding a way to manage the workloads that...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:49 PM/EST
There’s a war on to regain control of enterprise IT systems that goes well beyond any single platform. The reality of enterprise IT today is that there are hundreds, even thousands, of virtual and physical systems that IT organizations have...