Mainframe Server Hardware

WEBCAST: When mainframes are not properly integrated with the rest of your data center infrastructure, the costs and complexity of managing them increases substantially. This webcast outlines the key phases of a mainframe rationalization approach and provides detailed guidance to help you effectively leverage it.

Posted: 04 May 2012 | Premiered: 04 May 2012

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: This product profile describes the challenges of training the next generation of mainframe specialists. Discover a tool that can ease mainframe management and explore its key features.

Posted: 03 May 2012 | Published: 03 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Too often, organizations choose x86-based platforms over more cost-effective mainframe alternatives. This white paper reviews the key benefits of the mainframe and discusses the savings you can expect by using these systems to support heavy I/O applications in your Linux environment.

Posted: 03 May 2012 | Published: 03 May 2012

VIDEO: As current mainframe specialists approach retirement age, companies must take steps to ensure that their specialized knowledge is not lost. This video examines a recommended mainframe management tactic and its key benefits, including cost savings, greater collaboration, and more.

Posted: 03 May 2012 | Premiered: 03 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Maintaining proper control over your mainframe infrastructure can be a time-consuming task for IT professionals. This research report discusses new management capabilities you can leverage immediately to streamline this essential process so you can allocate your time to other important projects.

Posted: 02 May 2012 | Published: 02 May 2012

EGUIDE: Access this expert e-guide to learn the reasoning behind mainframe modernization and whether it is right for your organization. Discover the crucial information you need to consider before deciding to modernize.

Posted: 01 May 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: The mainframe can enable substantial cost savings and efficiency gains, but only if effective management tactics are in place. This white paper examines the key advantages of the mainframe and offers exclusive advice for incorporating it into your overarching IT strategy.

Posted: 01 May 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: With a strong background of being an extremely secure platform for virtualized environments and workloads, mainframes can be a viable alternative to the massively scaled-out environments often deployed in the cloud. In this paper, explore a mainframe cloud approach that delivers a solid, secure foundation on which to build a cloud environment.

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 | Published: 24 Apr 2012

IT BRIEFING: This special nine-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing IBM, its financial performance, the services it offers.

Posted: 10 Apr 2012 | Published: 10 Apr 2012

WEBCAST: Access this resource to learn how you can simplify and streamline the management of your IBM i servers with a comprehensive solution set designed for your system’s architecture.

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 | Premiered: 02 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Inside, learn how mainframe rehosting can help you operate legacy workloads on lower cost platforms or offload your organization’s processing requirements in order to cap workload growth. Discover the benefits of mainframe rehosting solutions.

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 | Published: 28 Mar 2012

IT BRIEFING: Big businesses are planning to grow their mainframe computer capacity despite the downturn  this survey of 1,347 large mainframe users worldwide by BMC Software reveals.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 09 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This resource explains the different concepts linked to active processor resource allocation for LPARs. Learn about the complications that can result from the abundance of available configuration possibilities.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

CASE STUDY: This case study explores how one organization within the healthcare industry was able to modernize their enterprise resource planning (ERP) system by migrating from a traditional mainframe to HP Proliant servers. Discover how they were able to successfully handle increased sales growth and new acquisitions.

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 | Published: 07 Oct 2011

CASE STUDY: This case study explains how one retail giant improved business support services by rehosting its mainframe applications to HP integrity servers. Learn how they were able to overcome the integration difficulties connected to mainframe-based management, maximize use of open technologies, and much more.

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 | Published: 07 Oct 2011

CASE STUDY: This exclusive case study explores how one organization within the financial industry migrated from old, mainframe technology to HP Integrity Superdome servers in order to respond faster to changing financial markets with an adaptive infrastructure. Learn about the many IT and business improvements they gained.

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 | Published: 07 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource explains how you can lower costs and improve flexibility by migrating your mainframe to open system servers. Discover the three major factors driving organizations to consider migrating application workloads off mainframe environments to open systems solutions.

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 | Published: 07 Oct 2011

ASSESSMENT TOOL: In today’s tough economy, organizations are pressured to maintain a low total cost of ownership (TCO). This resource can help you compare the total cost of ownership (TCO) for maintaining and extending mainframe based applications versus the costs for migrating the applications to open systems servers.

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 | Published: 07 Oct 2011

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: This solution brief explains how organizations can meet new demands for higher performance, security, reliability, and service levels. Gain insight into a processor-based architecture that will allow you to achieve this goal.

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 | Published: 29 Jun 2011

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Take the "Virtual Integrated Solutions Survey" and share your input on converged infrastructures, unified fabric & preferred vendors.

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 | Published: 26 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper will detail how to control and manage MIPS usage by employing a systematic, repeatable approach that uses powerful technology and a proven process and expertise.

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 04 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how you can leverage existing Abend-AID capabilities to simplify problem resolution even in these increasingly complex systems. Read this paper to learn more about diagnosing DB2 and WebSphere MQ problems with Compuware Abend-AID.

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 04 Sep 2009

EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE: In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and BMC, you will discover best practices for comprehensive and cost-effective mainframe management, maintenance and upgrading. Explore cost-effective mainframe upgrades and gain insight into approaches essential for adding flexibility to today's mainframe applications.

Posted: 17 Jul 2009 | Published: 17 Jul 2009