In its latest push into the Linux arena, IBM has ported the open source operating system to its S/390 mainframe. The S/390 is IBM's high-end mainframe server, which experts claim is the industry standard for the world's largest companies.
The vendors are creating more robust versions of Unix that they claim will provide mainframe-like stability in the next generation operating systems. Analysts say the industry should be paying careful attention to how the recently announced merger...
Pace declined to comment on HP's suit until EMC has had time to examine it but said, "This looks to us like an act of desperation," triggered by competition and events such as EMC's hiring of Mark Lewis, a former top HP storage executive.
With a total of 36 processors running the Linux operating system, the setup is one of Europe's largest installations of Linux on the mainframe, IBM said. In another sign the mainframe computer is coming back to life, IBM is set to announce today...
The results showed that IBM z900 mainframe running Linux is much less capable and vastly more expensive than Windows Server 2003 as a platform for server consolidation. Microsoft claimed the study was as like-for-like as it could be between the...
An essential investment that companies must make in their compliance efforts is in tools for automating and improving auditing and reporting capabilities. Before any technology investments are made, companies need to perform an assessment of which...