ALSO CALLED: Mainframes DEFINITION: A mainframe (also known as "big iron") is a high-performance computer used for large-scale computing purposes that require greater availability and security than a smaller-scale machine can offer. Historically, mainframes have been associated with centralized rather than distributed computing,
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WEBCAST: Posted: 30 Apr 2008 | When: Available On Demand
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A View integrates with EMC® Centera® content-addressed storage (CAS) to automate the flow of reports between mainframe and distributed platforms, offering a solution set that grows with your changing business needs.
DATA SHEET: Posted: 22 Apr 2004 | Published: 01 Jan 2002
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Attunity Connect for Mainframe provides modern development environments and enterprise tools with robust and comprehensive connectivity to mainframe resources.
MAINFRAME COMPUTERS DEFINITION (continued): … although that distinction is blurring as smaller computers become more powerful and mainframes become more multi-purpose. Today, IBM emphasizes that their mainframes can be used to serve distributed users and smaller servers in a computing network.
The mainframe is sometimes referred to as a "dinosaur" not only because of its size but because of reports, going back many years, that it's becoming extinct. In 1991 Stewart Alsop, the editor of InfoWorld, predicted … Mainframe Computers definition sponsored by SearchDataCenter.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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