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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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Banco de Chile improves its IT infrastructure with Oracle Exalogic
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
VIDEOCAST:
Learn how one financial and banking organization easily deployed a complete hardware and software platform that combines everything enterprises love about mainframes and open systems without any of the drawbacks.
Posted: 20 Jun 2012 | Premiered: Jun 20, 2012
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Enterprise Modernization - The Cornerstone of Smarter Computing
sponsored by IBM
WEBCAST:
View this webcast to learn how to combat the server and application sprawl that is consuming your IT budget while driving efficient innovation. Discover an infrastructure approach that maximizes performance of existing assets while allowing for modernization and mainframe development.
Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Premiered: Feb 14, 2012
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Cross enterprise APM demo
sponsored by CA Technologies.
WEBCAST:
This webcast points out common bottlenecks that delay the resolution of application performance issues on your mainframe. Learn why it is essential that you integrate your mainframe with the other distributed systems you rely on.
Posted: 18 Jul 2011 | Premiered: Jul 18, 2011
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Webcast - Closing the Four Security Risk Gaps of Mainframe Console Access
sponsored by I/O Concepts Inc.
WEBCAST:
The information presented in this webcast can help you be sure your company's commitment to security includes all levels of mainframe access.
Posted: 05 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Dec 5, 2008
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CA Cleanup: Mainframe Security Databases: ACF2, Top Secret, IBM RACF
sponsored by CA Technologies.
SOFTWARE DEMO:
Over a period of time security databases accumulate unused, obsolete user ids and entitlements. This demonstration showcases the three causes and solution sets to security data accumulation.
Posted: 17 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 13 Jun 2008
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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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