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  IBM battles dire mainframe myths

  The perception of mainframe technology as outmoded or inefficient is wildly inaccurate in a number of important ways, according to IBM's chief architect for cloud computing, Frank DeGilio.

  By Jon Gold | 16 March, 2012 21:37

  Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, hardware systems, IBM, mainframe

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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: mainframe, Master the Mainframe Contest 2011

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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: mainframe, servers

• 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: IBM, mainframe, servers. IDC

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

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  From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation

  IT as we know it is over.

  By Johna Till Johnson | 23 April, 2012 21:32

  Tags: cloud computing, Configuration/maintenance, consumerization, Data Center, hardware systems, Harvard Business Review, infrastructure management, internet, mainframe, management, Nemertes Research, networking, Nicholas Carr, outsourcing, services, wireless

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