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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, although that distinction is blurring as smaller computers become more powerful and mainframes  … 
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Recent Vendor Reports on Mainframe Computers
E-Guide: Mainframe Storage Overview
sponsored by Data Domain
EGUIDE: There are many advantages to using a mainframe to back up all of an organization's data to streamline backup and disaster recovery (DR) operations. This SearchStorage.co.UK E-Guide, sponsored by Data Domain, provides an overview of mainframe storage systems as well as using mainframes for data backup.
Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Published: 30 Jun 2009
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E-Guide: An Overview of Mainframe Storage
sponsored by Data Domain
EGUIDE: There are many advantages to using a mainframe to back up all of an organization's data to streamline backup and disaster recovery (DR) operations. This SearchStorage.com E-Guide, sponsored by Data Domain, provides an overview of mainframe storage systems as well as using mainframes for data backup.
Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 29 Jun 2009
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Podcast: The Mainframe - Best Practices 2009
sponsored by CA
PODCAST: In this videocast on 2009 best practices learn about consolidation, the evolution of hub and moderization of legacy mainframe applications.
Posted: 23 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 23 Jun 2009
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Five Steps to Gaining Control and Managing Complexity in the Data Center through Service Automation
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER: Automating your data center can improve operational efficiency and give you control over service quality, security, and business agility, while simultaneously reducing risk and costs. Learn how five simple steps can help you chart your course to automation and show you how to develop a deliberate and well-planned incremental approach.
Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009
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Best Practices for Mainframe 2009
sponsored by CA
VIDEO: In this videocast watch expert Wayne Kernochan talk about consolidation of more than 20 applications onto the mainframe, global demand of business transactions in IT leading to long term cost structures and rapid changes in the environment.
Posted: 11 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 11 Jun 2009
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Best Practices in ECM Document Archive Migration
sponsored by Xenos Group Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this white paper is to outline the challenges of migrating documents from enterprise content management (ECM) systems, educate the reader, and provide best practices that ensure success.
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2007
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Mainframes are Still Mainstream
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: Organizations with significant processing requirements continue to maintain many of their applications on mainframes. Taking advantage of new capabilities in the mainframe market that proactively monitor and automate to maintain high availability, continuous operations and proactive problem management, will result in profitable business benefits.
Posted: 30 Apr 2009 | Published: 29 Jun 2007
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Meeting Performance Management Challenges with CA Mainframe Performance Management Suite
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: Increased datacenter complexity amplifies the difficulties in applying proactive performance management practices. This paper outlines how CA Mainframe Performance Management Suite helps datacenter professionals maintain the high levels of performance enterprises expect from their mainframe environments.
Posted: 30 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009
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Bringing New Generations into the Mainframe Environment
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: Even with solid reliability and scalable processing power, mainframes require skilled staff for application development and system support. So as baby-boomer mainframers move into later career stages, employers may legitimately worry about their availability, motivation, and health. This paper explores four long-term organizational strategies.
Posted: 29 Apr 2009 | Published: 28 Apr 2009
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Optimizing Mainframe Success by Simplifying Ownership
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER: The mainframe offers value in today's enterprise computing environments, where growing workloads, constrained resources, regulatory imperatives and corporate "green" mandates are intensifying the pressure on IT organizations. As the industry's most experienced mainframe professionals approach retirement, organizations are facing tough choices.
Posted: 29 Apr 2009 | Published: 31 Dec 2008
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Mainframe Security Risk and Compliance: CA Mainframe Security
sponsored by CA
ANALYST REPORT: Clearly the world of IT has changed considerably over the past 25 years with the rise of distributed computing and the profound effect the internet and World Wide Web have had on the way that we communicate day by day. This Bloor research paper highlights the the mainframe computer, a cornerstone of IT that remains constant despite these changes.
Posted: 29 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2008
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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: Available On Demand
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Controlling Explosive New Workload Growth:Trends and Best Practices from the BMC 2008 Mainframe Survey Results
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WEBCAST: Join Bob Thomas (z/Journal), Mike Moser (BMC), and Neil Blagrave (BMC) as they discuss trends in new workload adoption and share ideas and best practices for getting the most value from resources while continuing to push out more new and varied processing!
Posted: 24 Apr 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Lowering Mainframe TCO Through zIIP Speciality Engine Exploitation
sponsored by DataDirect Shadow
WHITE PAPER: In this benchmark report, learn how DataDirect Shadow can help you advance your SOA enablement strategy and significantly lower mainframe TCO by offloading up to 90% of your integration processing to zIIP specialty engines.
Posted: 22 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009
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The Reality Facing the Mainframe World
sponsored by Acxiom Corporation
WHITE PAPER: The mainframe is alive and processing. As a mainframe executive, various solutions are available to help address your challenges and meet the needs of your business.
Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Published: 09 Dec 2008
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Getting the Most from System z: Redefining Mainframe Economics with the Specialty Engines
sponsored by DataDirect Shadow
WHITE PAPER: In the current market, insurers-and all companies, are looking for ways to cut costs and to be more efficient. This report is a high-level survey of some vendors that are known to be helping clients.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Published: 10 Nov 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 … 
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