Infrastructure Management White Papers
Applying Mainframe Experience to the Distributed Environment
Overview Mainframes and distributed systems, previously looked at as separate entities, are now rapidly coming together into a single, distributed IT environment. As a result, people from two previously separate and very different cultures - mainframe and distributed - are coming together to architect, develop, and manage the resulting unified infrastructure. Each of the two groups has arrived at this point through two very different evolutionary paths. In evolving along those paths, both groups have gained considerable, albeit different, experiences along the way and have learned valuable lessons from these experiences. This paper examines some of the major differences between the mainframe culture and the distributed culture and discusses how people in the distributed environment can learn from the experiences of those in the mainframe environment.
| Publisher | BMC Software | File Format | |
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| Date Published | October 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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