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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, although that distinction is blurring as smaller computers become more powerful and mainframes
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Application Transformation: Getting to the Bottom Line
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
VIRTUAL TRADESHOW:
Learn application transformation strategies, such as legacy application modernization and exploiting mainframe alternatives, in this on demand virtual conference. Get innovated with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and managing director of TCG Advisors and Dale Vecchio, featured speaker from Gartner Research.
Posted: 04 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 04 Oct 2009
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Application Transformation: Getting to the Bottom Line: Americas
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
VIRTUAL TRADESHOW:
Learn application transformation strategies, such as legacy application modernization and exploiting mainframe alternatives, in this on demand virtual conference. Get innovated with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and managing director of TCG Advisors and Dale Vecchio, featured speaker from Gartner Research.
Posted: 04 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 04 Oct 2009
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Application Transformation: Getting to the Bottom Line: Asia Pacific and Japan
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
VIRTUAL TRADESHOW:
Learn application transformation strategies, such as legacy application modernization and exploiting mainframe alternatives, in this on demand virtual conference. Get innovated with Geoffrey Moore, best-selling author and managing director of TCG Advisors and Dale Vecchio, featured speaker from Gartner Research.
Posted: 04 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 04 Oct 2009
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Will New Mainframe Technologies Attract New Blood to the Platform?
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
PODCAST:
Wayne Kernochan discusses new and unique technologies on the mainframe that may be attractive to college graduates and job seekers.
Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 28 Sep 2009
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BMC SQL Performance for DB2: Two Minute Explainer Video
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WEBCAST:
Inefficient DB2 applications can waste MIPS and cost an organization thousands while mainframe application demand continually grows. Learn how BMC's SQL Performance solution for DB2 can reduce CPU MIPS, improve DB2 application performance, correct problems before they occur, and enable staff to work on more productive tasks.
Posted: 24 Apr 2009 | Premiered: 24 Apr 2009
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MAINFRAME COMPUTERS DEFINITION (continued): … 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 that the last mainframe would be retired by 1996. However, in February 2008 IBM released a new mainframe, the z10. Steve Lohr wrote about the mainframe as "the classic survivor technology" in The New York … Mainframe Computers definition sponsored by SearchDataCenter.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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