IBM mainframe support takes a break
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Big Blue blames routine maintenance IBMLink, the place Big Blue's mainframe customers go for online support, suffered a weekend of downtime between 8 June and 11 June.â¦
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IBM has announced Version 6 of its WebSphere Application Server software, which is designed to protect applications from server downtime and aid enterprise efforts to build a service-oriented architecture.
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Six years coming IBM has teased with scant details of its long-awaited updates to AIX and its Power6-based blade server line â but today the specs have dribbled out of Big Blue at last.â¦
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OCTOBER 06, 2004  - IBM today unveiled a new version of its WebSphere Application Server software, which is designed to protect applications from server downtime and boost enterprise efforts to build a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
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Company is upgrading current support and service program to draw more mainframe customers.
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IBM&#39;s affections for service-oriented architectures deepened today when Big Blue offered details on the impending version 6 release of WebSphere Application Server.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM Corp. is releasing more software to make it easier to program, manage and administer its mainframes in an ongoing bid to attract more customers to purchase its big iron hardware instead of high-end servers. The move is part of a five-year, $100 million project IBM began in October toÂ simplify use of its System z mainframe. At that time, IBM released a variety of tools and services including a new mainframe management console, better software asset management capabilities and Health Checker for z/OS, a monitoring and configuration tuning tool. The new enhancements IBM announced for its System z software Tuesday cover security, systems and data management and virtualization. The vendor made the announcements at the Share conference in Tampa, Florida. Turning 52 this year, Share, an independent IBM user group, is one of the world's oldest user associations. Both IBM and Share have been spearheading a number of initiatives in recent years designed to raise the profile of the mainframe. These include zNextGen, a project to get IT students interested in gaining mainframe expertise and then embarking on careers in big iron, which both organizations see as very important given that many skilled mainframe operators are reaching retirement age. As part of Tuesday's announcements, IBM unveiled a new version of its database -- DB2 9 for z/OS -- due out in the first half of this year along with a suite of DB2 tools. The vendor is also enhancing its Tivoli monitoring family of availability and performance management tools including Omegamon z/OS Management Console. IBM acquired the Omegamon technology through the June 2004 purchase of Candle. IBM has translated the Omegamon software into Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. Also new is z/VM version 5.3, an improved release of IBM's mainframe virtualization software with a focus on expanding the technology's scalability to host over 1,000 virtual images on a single hypervisor. The vendor has also worked on simplifying the management of Z/VM running on the Linux operating system. On the middleware side, IBM is releasing WebSphere Developer for System z version 7.0 and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository for z/OS version 6.0. Both offerings are designed to help users as they adopt the service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to development so they can more easily expose their mainframe data as Web services. Turning to security, IBM debuted the Consul zSecure Suite version 1.8 which enables z/OS users to create and review XML security audits on their mainframe data.Â The vendor acquired Consul in January to beef up the compliance and security auditing capabilities of its Tivoli systems management software and is working on integrating Consul's zSecure software with Tivoli. Â
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IBM has regained its position at the top of the Top500 Supercomputer Web site list, effectively ending NEC's nearly unchallenged three year reign. IBM's "BlueGene/L" has inched past NEC's Earth Simulator by a margin of 0.15 teraflops.
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Sun Microsystems and several other vendors on Wednesday will release an early draft of a specification intended to ease integration of Java-based systems, but IBM and BEA Systems have dropped out of participation in the effort.
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Make friends with your plumber IBM's CoolBlue scheme to bring back water-cooled computing has been boosted by a licensing deal with networking manufacturer Panduit.â¦
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Windows, Linux and Java each fail some basic integrity rules.
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By JORDAN ROBERTSON  SAN JOSE, Calif. - Your work computer just suffered a major meltdown. Maybe the operating system failed, or a virus crashed the hard drive.
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SEPTEMBER 06, 2004  - IBM announced a pair of entry-level workgroup disk arrays last week, including a scaled-down reincarnation of an iSCSI-based device that the company dropped two years ago.
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IBM  on Wednesday announced a five-year effort to make the IBM System z mainframe easier to use by 2011.
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Mainframe systems are playing a key role in many SOA (service-oriented architecture) projects, according to a study released this week by IBM user group SHARE.
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BMC Software Inc. has added IBM Corp.'s IMS mainframe database to the platforms supported by its SmartDBA family of products, completing a two-year mission to provide tools for managing all of the major databases from a single, Web-based console.
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UK mesh pioneer taken out of administration