Here's a bit from the introduction to a recent article by Ken Milberg under the title ""="">. Today's new breed of smaller, cheaper mainframes, paired with the Linux operating system, look like an ...

Last time, I shared with you a letter from a correspondent in South Africa who is required to restructure what seems to be a large and fairly complex IT environment. His shop includes mainframes, open ...

The days when IBM 's mainframe computers held a monopoly on enterprise computing may have ended with the influx of cheaper x86 and Unix servers. But Big Blue is still reinventing its big iron. And now ...

As IBM tries to consolidate its grip on the mainframe market, competitors see an upcoming product transition as a chance to steal some bones from the top dog. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Only half a dozen years ago, the computing world was abuzz over the seemingly limitless possibilities of the PC client/server networks that were popping up everywhere. As a result, computer-industry ...

Commvault has come up in discussions as an alternative to TSM as our primary backup solution. <BR><BR>For the larger enterprise folks out there in a very mixed environment that include AIX, ESX, ...

The mainframe business is to I.B.M. what manufacturing is to the American economy, a shrinking but strategically vital part of the franchise. With the introduction of a new generation of mainframes on ...

Baldor Electric Co. and Welch Foods Inc. have much in common. Both are growing, midsize companies with similar-size IT departments. Each uses packaged ERP applications and is run by IT managers who ...

Mainframe Linux can boost application uptime and reduce support costs. But users and analysts recommend acting carefully when choosing which applications to move to the open-source operating system ...