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from The Mainstream, Issue 28 – Feb. – March 2008
Performance was once a narrowly defined discipline within the confines of the data center. Today, it takes a more globally focused perspective, if your goal is to stay ahead of the competition. Performance is a pulse that flows throughout a business and enterprise – whether it’s measured by transaction, revenue, CPU or customer satisfaction.
This issue of Mainstream explores some of the ways businesses are looking at performance, and building it into every step of the application development lifecycle.
Denise A. Hamilton
Editor
hamiltod@us.ibm.com
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Simplifying Big Iron for 2008 and beyond |
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In fall of 2006, IBM announced a five-year effort to streamline and simplify mainframe computing. Eventually, anyone with a computer sciences background will get up to speed on the platform within months, versus years of on-the-job experience. In 2008 and 2009, numerous System z software products will aide that initiative with a push toward simplified interfaces and tighter integration. Learn more about what we’re up to. |
Take a look at these white papers, analyst reports and articles in selected industry publications, covering important topics in System z:
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Butler Group reports on IBM Service Management
As the demands on CIOs increase the effective use of human resources becomes a critical factor in any IT department; Butler Group likes the ability that IBM Service Management has to automatically correct predicted problems before the end-user is aware of the problem. |
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Rational Change and Release Solutions White Paper to support Application Development (476KB)
To meet the demand for business innovation and agility, organizations are looking to improve the structure, flexibility and reusability of their business software. To learn about Rational's enterprise modernization application development tools with integrated change, build, and release management, please click on the link for the white paper for a discussion of the factors involved and IBM solutions to meet this need. |
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Visit our System z case study Web site and customer testimonial Web site for the latest case studies on the business value of System z, across industries. Take advantage of the knowledge gained by those who have gone before you.
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CCR2™ provides fresh and high-value content from leading Systems z IT professionals and experts that will help in the day-to-day management of their mainframe applications and environments. Don't miss the current issue of the CCR2 newsletter. |
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CICS Portfolio e-Newsletter
If you are a CICS architect, developer, administrator, business manager or decision maker, the CICS Portfolio e-Newsletter will help you leverage your existing CICS assets. You’ll also learn about the latest technical developments for CICS and System z tooling, education, events and user groups. |
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Events
Our events give you an opportunity to learn from the experts in person or virtually, network with your peers and experience the latest products in action.
Join IBM, other users, partners and industry analysts at IBM Pulse 2008, May 18-22, in Orlando, Florida. If you're responsible for Tivoli®, Maximo® and Netcool® solutions, IBM Pulse 2008 will help you break through the constraints of the siloed environment – and take a holistic approach to managing critical assets. Visit our Web site for registration and opportunities to present at this unique event.
The IBM Impact 2008 event in Las Vegas, April 6-11, brings together the Transaction and Messaging Conference ("T&M") and the WebSphere® Technical Exchange into one great event. This annual conference, with more than 6000 IBM Customers and Business Partners coming together, offers unparalleled technical education and IBM thought leadership for LOBs, CIOs and practical application for users. From IT practitioners to senior business leaders, you'll get more value from the one conference that brings it all together. You have the option of choosing from three distinct tracks designed to address your challenges, no matter what role you play in the success of your enterprise.
Every day, your staff fights the battle against information isolation, data overload, poor processes, and other barriers to working across vast distances and languages. In a world of geographically distributed business and systems, it’s too much to manage without helpe. It takes collaboration, effective organizational ability and teamwork. Learn how IBM can help by joining us at the annual IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2008, June 1-5, at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel. With more than 300 technical sessions, there’s simply too much for you to miss.
The SOA Journey was selected as one of SHARE's 2008 conference themes by SHARE's Business Issues Council, an esteemed panel of industry leaders who work with SHARE each year to select key industry topics. At the next SHARE conference in Orlando, February 24-29, SHARE will feature over 50 sessions focusing on the SOA Journey.
Webcasts and teleconferences
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Take advantage of IBM webcasts and teleconferences to keep up with the latest thinking in business and IT best practices, covering topics that span the mainframe-based enterprise. Learn how IBM System z can help you work smarter, faster and more cost-effectively.
You can also choose from among various webcast and teleconference replays, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our webcasts are ongoing - check back often for updates to the schedule.
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Automating System z workloads
As IT increasingly becomes under pressure to deliver more service to the business with smaller IT staffs and tighter budgets, the advantages of system and workload automation were never more welcome. |
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WebSphere Application Infrastructure and Smart SOA on System z
Learn more about WebSphere Application Server on z/OS, WebSphere Extended Deployment and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository. We'll discuss key capabilities in each of these products and how they can be used to meet your business requirements, especially when combined with the power and performance of System z. |
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Accelerating business agility with SOA
What does SOA mean to your organization and how can you use it to benefit your business? Join IBM senior executives Robert LeBlanc, Tom Rosamilia and Sandy Carter, along with an IBM client, Mohammed Farooq, CTO at Texas Health & Human Services Commission, for a lively and informative session featuring real-world SOA success stories plus new announcements from IBM. |
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The growing importance of enterprise modernization
Hayden Lindsey, Rational vice president for enterprise tools and compilers, defines enterprise modernization and talks about the five key areas of business and IT focus: assets, architecture, skills, processes and tools, and development investments. He introduces the related IBM offerings and shares his views on the place and purpose of IT in an enterprise, and the need for modernization in the five critical areas. |
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Best practices for business resiliency with System z
Planning for unforeseen business interruptions goes beyond pure disaster recovery concepts to address how your business can deliver IT services – seamlessly – on a continuous basis. We call it business resiliency. Join us for this complimentary teleconference and see how you can monitor and analyze storage performance in order to respond quickly to storage-related issues. |
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Visit any time to find out how to attend these sessions or view the replay from the archives.
Resources
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IMS Version 10 Performance Summary
It's the premier database and transaction management system, a critical component of almost every major enterprise worldwide, and now it’s even better. IMS Version 10, boasts improved performance, availability, scalability and manageability. Its many enhancements combine to give you an unsurpassed data and transaction management product. Download this special report to learn how you can get more out of one of you most reliable mainframe assets. |
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IBM Rational solutions for banking
The IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform is a complete solution for developing software and software-based systems. It helps businesses operate more efficiently so they can deliver innovative products and services that set them apart from their competitors. Learn how our banking solution helps you establish, implement, enforce and monitor governance policies and procedures. The result is coherence across the applications and processes that affect functional and operational risk. |
What we think
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