• Master the Mainframe contest winner announced

  By Lisa Banks | 25 November, 2011 11:42

  A computer science student from the University of New South Wales has won IBM Australia’s Master the Mainframe contest.

• Racing and Wagering Western Australia off and running for Melbourne Cup

  By Georgina Swan | 01 November, 2011 00:01

  The IT systems of Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA) are off and racing in time for this year’s Melbourne Cup, the culmination of a four-year modernisation program that includes the implementation of a Cisco Unified Computing System and intelligent network.

• Changing times in mainframe market for IBM Australia

  By Hamish Barwick | 11 August, 2011 11:54

  Despite a reduction in direct mainframe customers from 100 in 2007 to 50 in 2011, IBM continues to have a firm grip on the local mainframe market according to IDC results for 2010.

• HP to retain ATO centralised computing contract

  By Tim Lohman | 17 December, 2010 16:00

  HP Enterprise Services, formerly EDS, has picked up the Australian Tax Office’s (ATO) centralised computing contract.

• Cobol skills drought persists amid mainframe migrations

  By Rodney Gedda | 22 November, 2010 10:59

  Enterprises struggling to fill demands for Cobol skills should consider an application modernisation program which could also pave the way for migration off the mainframe to an open system.

• From IT to ET: Cloud, consumerisation, and the next wave of IT transformation

  By Johna Till Johnson | 23 April, 2012 21:32

  IT as we know it is over.

• Now departing: Union Pacific's 40-year-old mainframe

  By Thomas Wailgum | 13 August, 2009 04:50

  Union Pacific, the railroad company that transports chemicals, coal, food, minerals and automobiles in and around 23 Western U.S. states, has had two workhorses that toiled tirelessly for the past four decades: the diesel locomotive and the IBM mainframe.

• Things CIOs must know about mainframe modernisation

  By David F. Carr | 29 July, 2009 04:53

  1. Mainframe shops have to make decisions: whether to migrate to other platforms, add service-oriented architecture (SOA) interfaces or rewrite applications. With a half-baked strategy, IT winds up "bolting on all sorts of unusual, often architecturally inelegant" work-arounds, argues John B. Rabon, manager of legacy modernization at Aflac. "We saw this happening. You hit this wall of unintended consequences." Aflac is now 60 percent finished with a major conversion initiative.

Whitepapers about mainframe

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  IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments - Advanced Data Protection for VMware ESX Environments

  Server virtualization is taking hold in companies of all sizes, and VMware is one of the more popular hypervisors adopted by IT organizations. While VMware server virtualization continues to gain momentum, IT organizations still have some hurdles to overcome if they are to deploy virtualization more widely across the enterprise. Backup and recovery of virtual server environments ranks highly as a top initiative and area of investment—a major focus for a growing population of corporate IT organizations expanding the use of virtualization to incorporate more tier-1 production applications. This paper introduces Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments (TSM for VE), IBM’s solution for optimizing backup and recovery in VMware installations.

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  Research Report - The Mainframe Virtualisation Advantage: How to Save Over Million Dollars Using an IBM System z as a Linux Cloud Server

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  Server Sprawl And Cost Reduction Bring New Customers To Mainframe/Linux Platform