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Archive - 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
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



2009:

January
Colacem (SAP on Linux on System z mainframe case study)
Qatar's Computing Cloud!

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

2010:
January
System z Solution Editions: A Major Pricing Action at IBM
IBM Tivoli Live Monitoring Service -- Enterprise Level Management for Small and Midsized Companies
Will New Technology from IBM Power Systems and Intel Drive Itanium and SPARC Out of the Market?
Irish Life and Permanent plc: Using CA's Next Generation Tools and Utilities to Simpify Mainframe Management

February
An Impartial Critique of Red Hat Linux
IBM's Not Just a Chip POWER7 Announcement
Audio/Video Links:  Our Perspectives on the Market Consolidation Around x86 Multi-cores; POWER, and z
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kBcyzXrlRk

March
Novell in Linux
Clabby Analytic's View of the Evolving Business Transaction Processing Marketplace
The Future of the Server Market -- UPDATE of And Then There Were Three
PULSE Interview
http://www.add-links.eu/search_video/0/video/clabby/357piTAUP6A.html

April
Microsoft Pulls the Plug on Itanium (and What This Could Mean to HP)
Beyond Virtualization: Building a Long Term
Information Systems Strategic PlanNumber 50,000 + 1: The Making of a Mainframe Manager
Should You Fire Your CIO For Recommending Itanium?

May
The Mainframe Skills Shortage Urban Myth: Clabby Analytics Investigates (a Gartner Challenge)
Advanced Voice/Video (Telepresence)/Data Services: MASERGY Intelligent Transport and Network Services
Following Transactions Through the Cloud: Better Put OpTier in Your Budget
Hey Gartner: Migrate to WHAT?
June
Tieto: Opening New Markets for Mainframe Computing
Network Strategic Planning for Next Generation Data Centers
IBM Smarter Systems -- Not Quite What We Expected
Nastel: An Integrated Application Performance and Business Transaction Management Environment

July
Workload Optimization Seminar (Slides)
How and Why IBM Is Taking Control of the Business Analytics and Optimization (BAO) Marketplace
A Closer Look at the role of Systemd Director VM Control
Netuitive 5.0 -- Automated Performance Management for Private Clouds
An Analyts's Perspective on the New z (Slide Show)
How x86 Architecture and the Economic Recovery Have Positioned Microsoft for Strong Growth
What IBM's Announcement of the New z Enterprise, Unified Resource Manager, and zBX Really Means
Not Lost in z Shuffle: IBM's System z Storage Enhancements
How IBM's New z Enterprise/Blade Environment Can Be Used to Break Down Organizational Barriers
How the Oracle Acquisition of Sun Has Changed the Competitive Dynamics in the Server Business

August
INETCO: Insight into Mission Critical Payment Processing Applications
CIO Linux Outlook for 2010 and Beyond

September
The Curious Case of Union Pacific's Move from Mainframes to x86 Blades
Following transactions through the Cloud: Better put OpTier in your Budget (updated)
CA Mainframe Chorus: Increase Efficiency Today, Build Skills for Tomorrow

October
Swiss Re: A Strong Focus on Business Process Flow and Workload Optimization
The "Wow!" Factor: A Perfect Example of Using Business Analytics and Cloud Computing to Create Business Value

November
How IBM Is Building Marketshare in the CSP Marketplace
What the BLADE Network Technologies Acquisition Does for IBM and Its Customers
Will ARM Servers Usurp Intel Xeon?

December
Workload Optimized Systems for Superior Business Value



2011:
January
Correlsense SharePath: Making Sense of Transaction Data in the Cloud

The Mainframe as a Cloud Architecture

February
Oracle and the Case of the Missing Slides...

The Mainframe Virtualization Advantage: How to Save a Million Dollars Using an IBM System z as a Linux Cloud Server

Nastel: An Integrated Application Performance and BusinessTransaction Management Environment (updated)

March
CA Technologies in Application Performance Management

Linux: IBM's Workload Optimization Growth Engine

Mainframe Skills Report: Sources of Mainframe Skills Training

April
The SunSetting of SPARC

The Impact of Systems Software

Using the Channel to Sell Mainframes: The Vicom Infinity Story

May
Should You Fire Your CEO for Recommending Itanium? Update

IBM Enterprise Platform for Core Banking

Water Cooling in the Data Center

ConicIT: Automated Reasoning to Troubleshoot Mainframe Problems

IBM's System Software: A Closer Look at Heterogeneous Systems/Storage Management

June
IBM's Tivoli Composite Manager (ITCAM)

Virtualization and Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning

How Small/Medium Enterprises Can Build Efficient Storage Environments

And Then There Were Three: POWER, x86 and z (Annual Update)

IBM's Smarter City Initiative

IBM’s Migration Factory: Tools, Metrics, Automation, Process Expertise, and Project Management

Al Rajhi's 300 MIP IBM Mainframe: The Best Machine for the Job

July
Driving Down Network Management and Troubleshooting Costs: IBM's NetView v6.1

The Multifaceted, Multi-service, Hybrid, Heterogeneous Cloud Environment at Marist

IBM’s New z114: A Replacement for SPARC/Itanium Servers?

Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina: A Model of IT Efficiency

The HP/UX/Itanium to Linux/x86 Multicore Migration Trend

August

September
IBM’s BladeCenter Foundation
vs. Cisco’s Unified Computing System:
A Price and Value Discussion

Nimsoft: CA Technologies Cloud Solution for Midmarket and Emerging Growth Customers

October
The IT Skills Shortage: Where Will We Find Mainframe Talent?

CA Technologies' Mainframe Software Rationalization Program

Oracle's New T4 Servers: Marketing Balderdash

IBM in the Storage Marketplace:2012 and Beyond

Choosing IBM zEnterprise for Next Gen Business Analytics Applications

November
INETCO:Expanding into New Markets with Cloud-ready Application Monitoring

December
IBM's Software Group Analyst Connect 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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