IBM Rolls Out New Linux Mainframe Solutions

IBM has announced that it has shipped its first two IBM zEnterprise 196 mainframe systems to re-insurer Swiss Re.According to IBM, the zEnterprise 196 mainframe system, which was released for sale on 10 September, has already...

Big Blue has pulled the curtains on the fastest commercial processor ever, one with a default clock speed of 5.2GHz, at the Hot Chips 2010 conference. (In comparison, the fastest commercial x86 processor from rival Intel - the...

IBM has unveiled its new 'zEnterprise' mainframe computer.The company claims the system is faster and more cost-effective than previous mainframes.According to news agency Reuters, the company said that the newly launched...

IBM has received another complaint about its mainframe business - this time from Neon Enterprise Software.Neon Enterprise Software, which develops software aimed at mainframe users, plans to complain to the European Commission...

IBM has unveiled two new enterprise storage products capable of running on both x86 storage systems and System x mainframe systems.  System Storage DS3500 Express and System x3620 M3 Express will target companies that have...

US based information technology behemoth IBM, has announced its end quarter results which indicated an increase in the net income to $ 2.6 billion, from the previous figure of $2.3 billion. This works out to $ 1.97 a share...

In an attempt to widen its data analytics portfolio, International Business Machines is planning to expand its Smart Analytics Systems by developing separate versions of the platforms, which are compatible with mainframes and...

International Business Machines, the world's largest computer technology company, has lashed out at the open source community, which it was ardently supporting sometime back, by serving open source software developer...

A French firm has slapped IBM with an antitrust lawsuit in Europe, accusing Big Blue of preventing users to run IBM mainframe operating system on its machines other than IBM's, thereby seriously impacting the competition in the...

IBM has announced that it is adding data deduplication features to its mainframes via an advanced gateway appliance that involves the capability to compress tape data of up to size 25TB into 1TB worth of disk space. Big Blue is...

IT giant IBM has been served with a lawsuit by a much smaller rival Neon Enterprise Software, a company which develops mainframe software, for deliberately trying to prevent its users from using the software provided by the...

IBM on Tuesday unleashed a new software bundle tailored to pull the management of distinct arrays of servers under a single canopy, offering administrators an enhanced control over their systems. The new software suite codenamed...

Published bi-monthly, Mainframe Executive is an independent magazine for CIOs and IT managers that focuses on the role of the IBM mainframe computer system within the enterprise's IT infrastructure. IBM mainframes, though...

The Resource for Users of IBM Mainframe Systems. z/Journal is the only independent magazine dedicated solely to IT professionals in organizations using IBM mainframe computer systems (e.g. System z, S/390). Contrary to countless...

We all know that the mainframe is seeing resurgence in large enterprises; the SOA drumbeat has been loud and steady for a number of years now.   IBM and a strong base of ISV's have been marketing various SOA and the...