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  Master the Mainframe contest winner announced

  A computer science student from the University of New South Wales has won IBM Australia’s Master the Mainframe contest.

  By Lisa Banks | 25 November, 2011 11:42

  Tags: Master the Mainframe Contest 2011, mainframe

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  In pictures: BMC's mainframe survey results

  Australian and New Zealand mainframe users who participated in BMC's sixth annual worldwide mainframe survey believe that the platform will grow and attract new workloads.

  By Lisa Banks | 21 September, 2011 10:40

  Tags: servers, mainframe

• Changing times in mainframe market for IBM Australia

  Despite a reduction in direct mainframe customers from 100 in 2007 to 50 in 2011, IBM continues to have a firm grip on the local mainframe market according to IDC results for 2010.

  By Hamish Barwick | 11 August, 2011 11:54

  Tags: servers. IDC, mainframe, IBM

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  HP to retain ATO centralised computing contract

  HP Enterprise Services, formerly EDS, has picked up the Australian Tax Office’s (ATO) centralised computing contract.

  By Tim Lohman | 17 December, 2010 16:00

  Tags: storage, secure gateway, mainframe, data warehouse, data centre, Australian Tax Office

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  Cobol skills drought persists amid mainframe migrations

  Enterprises struggling to fill demands for Cobol skills should consider an application modernisation program which could also pave the way for migration off the mainframe to an open system.

  By Rodney Gedda | 22 November, 2010 10:59

  Tags: software development, micro focus, Mainframes, mainframe, COBOL

Whitepapers about mainframe

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  IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments - Advanced Data Protection for VMware ESX Environments

  Server virtualization is taking hold in companies of all sizes, and VMware is one of the more popular hypervisors adopted by IT organizations. While VMware server virtualization continues to gain momentum, IT organizations still have some hurdles to overcome if they are to deploy virtualization more widely across the enterprise. Backup and recovery of virtual server environments ranks highly as a top initiative and area of investment—a major focus for a growing population of corporate IT organizations expanding the use of virtualization to incorporate more tier-1 production applications. This paper introduces Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments (TSM for VE), IBM’s solution for optimizing backup and recovery in VMware installations.

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  Research Report - The Mainframe Virtualisation Advantage: How to Save Over Million Dollars Using an IBM System z as a Linux Cloud Server

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  Server Sprawl And Cost Reduction Bring New Customers To Mainframe/Linux Platform