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Archive - 2007, 2008, 2009
2007
January
PeakStream: It's About the Programming Model
(a product/strategy critique)
The Mainframe March to Simplification
IBM’s System z: Technology Update
Does System z Offer Better TCO than Scale-up, Distributed Unix and Linux Servers?
February
Blade.org: The Snowball Effect
Blade Computing: Thinking Beyond the Specs (a blade buying advisory)
March
The Alleged Mainframe Skills Shortage
April
A Call for GCC eGovernment Open Source
May
Parallelizing Applications for Multi-core Processors: The RapidMind Solution
The 13th Annual (Middle East) eGovernment/eServices Report
CIOs: Are You Selling Your CEO Short?
June
IBM BladeCenter Update (a product/strategy review)
Powerful Partners Helping Drive FPGA Systems Supplier Nallatech's Success
August
Joe and Billy's Excellent Brazilian Adventure
IBM BladeCenter Reliability/Availability Evaluation
November
Why You Need to Pay Attention to How Your Blade Vendor Handles I/O Address Virtualization
2008
January
The Green CEO
IBM's Cold Battery
IT Analyst Ethics: Advocay vs. Objectivity
February
IBM’s New z10 Mainframe: The Quintessential New
Enterprise
Data Center
The Data Center ‘Implosion Explosion’ … and the Need to Move to a New Enterprise Data Center Model
March
The Virtualization Multiplier (Blade buying patterns and advice)
April
Overloaded Networks and the Evolution of "Rackonomics"
May
Multithreaded, Multi-core Processors: Hey, Where Are the Programs?
Six Reasons Why Microsoft Hyper-V Will Overtake VMware to Become the Major Player in the x86 Virtualization Marketplace
June
IBM's iDataPlex and BLADE RackSwitch Overview
July
Sparkassen Informatik's New Enterprise Data Center (a customer case study)
Corner Banca's System z: One Helluva Bill -But Well Worth It!
August
Business Resiliency in the New Enterprise Data Center
Consolidation and Virtualization Are NOT Enough: Optimizing Application Performance in the New Enterprise Data Center
September
HP's "Real Story About Mainframes": Facts or FUD?
October
IBM
Systems Director and Tivoli Converge: The New IBM Systems Director 6.1
November
IBM's Moscow NEDC Event
The Globalization of IBM: IBM's Analyst Insights 08 Conference in Bucharest, Romania
IBM's Surprising CEO Survey Conference: Atlantis Hotel, Dubai UAE
December
KMD: Unix and Oracle Consolidation on System z
Reports in 2009:
January
Qatar's New "Computing Cloud"!
Colacem (SAP on Linux on System z mainframe case study)
February
Blade Everything?
Finanz Informatik (an update to Sparkassen Informatik case study)
March
Will the Real HP Please Stand Up?
IBM System Director and Tivoli Converge: The New IBM Systems Director 6.1
India's ELCOT (A mainframe computing cloud?)
April
Buying Criteria for x86 Servers (Blades, Racks, Towers)
Managing IT Through the Worldwide Economic
Crisis (Note: 59 pages)
The Importance of Business Resiliency and Security as Part of IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure
Baldor Electric Case Study (SAP on Linux on a mainframe)
MAY
CA's Christopher O'Malley and Mainframe 2.0
Oracle: The Great Systems Integrator?
CA's Mainframe 2.0 Strategy
June
The Strategic Importance of IT Service Management
MKS Toolkit vs. Cygwin: You Get What You Pay For
Smart Banking at IBM's European Banking Center of Excellence
Lessons Learned in Automatic Payment Systems
July:
CA's 2009 Analyst Symposium -- Ottawa, Canada
Are You Considering Migrating Away From Your Sun Servers?
August:
IBM's
New z Solutions Offerings (A MAJOR CHANGE IN MAINFRAME PRICING)
El Banco
de Credito del Peru on Mainframe Costs: Mainframes Are NOT our Most Expensive Platforms
Does Forrester's First Blade Assessment Miss the Mark?
September:
YouTube: Manage the Cloud with System z
The Department of the Interior’s National Business Center ? Using System z as a Strategic Enterprise Cloud Platform
History Be Damned: Oracle Will Make SPARC Successful Again! (Blog)
Introduction of new Website: www.gomainframe.com
October:
Blog: The Mainframe as a Centralized SOA/Cloud/Security Hub
Blog: Some Questions About What Drives the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA)
Mainframe Monopoly (Blog)
November:
Why the x86 Platform that You Choose Is Crucial When It Comes to Deploying Virtualization Software
And Then There Were Three: POWER, x86, and z