Dave Beulke

Last week IBM announced the zEnterprise with its new integrated IBMPOWER7 and IBM System x blades environments. This provides users with the ability to run traditional mainframe applications alongside any UNIX and Intel based applications. These new capabilities provide a one-stop cloud environment for businesses to deploy and scale any application from any platform.
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Within the recent zEnterprise announcement there were several exciting comments about the new query performance within the IBM Smart Analytics Optimizer. This smart system leverages the integrated platform, providing industry leading scalability for data warehouse and business intelligence capabilities.
Queries that scanned entire terabytes of data that were previously avoided can now be executed in [...]

The new zEnterprise IBM computer was announced last week and it can run any workload. Yes any workload! Your company can now run mainframe, UNIX and some Windows applications within the new environment.  The new zEnterprise is designed with performance and capacity for large-scale consolidation of any workload.  As has been done recently with consolidating [...]

It seems that last week’s blog struck a chord with many readers. Many people commented on how their management is increasingly out of touch with the mainframe. Also, comments also stated that the System Z environment is really processing almost all of the transactions in their company and how all the Windows platform [...]

Within the recent IBM Z Summit road show, there were several presentations detailing the mainframe platform advantages over UNIX and Windows platforms such as the lowest total cost of ownership, the best availability and unparalleled scalability. These presentations cut through the rumors with detailed facts and figures of the different platform configurations. Download these [...]