Facing competition from distributed systems, the mainframe could eventually be eased out of corporate IT unless the costs of mainframe hardware and software become more competitive and more agile ...

IBM has found one way to sidestep the mainframe vs. distributed computing dilemma by simply calling its mainframes something else. Today, IBM refers to its larger processors as large servers and ...

For 10 years, IT managers have heard the promises: cheap server farms will replace expensive mainframe systems, lowering costs and improving competitive advantage through modern applications. And ...

For example, if a company has a server farm of 200 distributed servers, it can be easily be consolidated into either one or two System boxes, hosting 60-70 Linux servers in a high-availability ...

Large, mainframe-based systems, goes conventional wisdom, are obsolete, more an Industrial Age artifact than a tool of the rapidly changing Information Age. Public and private enterprises have ...

A big advantage for distributed servers, on the other hand, is cost. Palm Beach Community College just auctioned off its zSeries 890 on eBay for $40,000, after paying $500,000 for the system three ...

1 A Look at Mainframe History as IBM System/360 Turns 50, COBOL Turns 55. by Darryl K. Taft. ... Many believed that distributed computing would become a cost-efficient alternative to the mainframe.

Easy migration of distributed workloads over to the mainframe virtualized environment reduces the number of distributed systems that have to be managed. Advertisement 6.

Merrill Lynch stays on the bleeding edge of the financial services industry with multiple IT resources – one more critical resource being IBM mainframe systems. “The mainframe is not going ...

IBM last week announced a slew of upgrades to its Tivoli management software portfolio that the company says will help customers automate administrative tasks and view mainframe-specific ...