Business Perspective:  How Cross-Platform Workload Automation Can Help Your Business Soar

by Jorge Montoya
February 3, 2012

To understand what a cross-platform tool can do for workload scheduling, think in terms of the challenges an air traffic controller faces.

IBM’s New Enterprise Data Center in Practice: Sparkassen Informatik

by Joe Clabby
December 18, 2008

Can running optimized, energy-efficient systems boost the bottom line? It has at SI, a leading IT service provider to Germany's retail banking industry.

IBM CICS System Management: New CICSPlex SM WLM Features in Version 4.2

by Mayur Raja & Dave Williams
December 15, 2011

With the need to handle increasing volumes of transactions, enterprises must implement extensive and more complex system configurations that often consist of Web front-ends, WebSphere Application Servers, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker, CICS, DB2, IMS, and other products.

CA Technologies Receives “Strong Positive” Gartner Rating in Mainframe Modernization Category

by Denny Yost
February 17, 2012

Earlier this month, CA Technologies was awarded a “strong positive” rating from Gartner in the analyst organization’s Mainframe Modernization category. The strong positive rating is the highest award level given by Gartner, attesting to the work the second largest mainframe independent software vendor in the world has been doing over the last few years. The entire company received an overall rating of “positive” from Gartner.

Moving Capacity Planning Forward With zEnterprise and Private Clouds

by Mary E. Shacklett
December 28, 2011

Capacity planning today is anything but “business as usual.”

Mainframe Security: More on Batch

by Stu Henderson
December 28, 2011

Here we continue our discussion of security over each path into the system, considering more complications over system access through batch jobs.

Mainframe Security: More on Batch

by Stu Henderson
December 28, 2011

Here we continue our discussion of security over each path into the system, considering more complications over system access through batch jobs.

Moving Capacity Planning Forward With zEnterprise and Private Clouds

by Mary E. Shacklett
December 28, 2011

Capacity planning today is anything but “business as usual.”