August 18, 2009 5:35 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
IBM System z mainframe hardware,
Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL),
zLinuxIBM has announced seven different hardware and software packages that include the System z mainframe and target specific application workloads such as disaster recovery and data warehousing.
The move is an effort by Big Blue to keep the mainframe relevant and attractive for whose who might...
July 28, 2009 4:06 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL),
linux on System z mainframe,
Novell SUSE,
zLinuxTimothy Prickett Morgan apparently got his hands on a Novell presentation about SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), its iteration of Linux that is the most popular distribution running on the mainframe on top of z/VM.
July 8, 2009 1:36 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
z/VM,
zLinuxIBM announced yesterday that z/VM 6.1, the newest version of its mainframe virtualization operating system, will be out by year's end.
The z/VM operating system has become more and more relevant over the past few years as companies have taken advantage of the virtualization appeal of the...
March 5, 2009 4:20 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
linux on System z mainframe,
zLinuxThere are more than a dozen sessions here at Share in Austin this week on running Linux on the IBM System z within z/VM, big iron's virtualization operating system. Nationwide, John Deere, the list goes on and on.
Yesterday I sat in on one of those sessions, where a systems engineer for a large...
March 2, 2009 8:01 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
mainframe user group share,
zLinuxMainframe user group Share just announced that Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina has won the group's 2009 Award for Excellence in Technology, mainly for its large-scale...
October 28, 2008 8:55 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
DataCenter,
Mainframe specialty engine,
z/VM,
zLinuxIn a move taken from auto dealerships and furniture companies, IBM is offering a way for mainframe users -- or wannabe mainframe users -- to get big iron now without having to pay for it until later.
Last week
August 25, 2008 10:08 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
zLinuxBy some estimates, since this past February when the z10 was introduced, Linux has accounted for more than half the total mainframe MIPS IBM has sold since the
July 28, 2008 4:14 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
LPAR,
z/VM,
zLinux
I must admit. As a tech journalist, it's always fun to watch two vendors go at each other's throats. That is what has been happening recently between...
