To help customers understand how the mainframe is an ideal platform for business analytics, IBM offers a free online course, “The Value of Business Analytics on System z.”
March 06, 2013
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By Scott Harris
No matter where you are in your mainframe career—new arrival or seasoned veteran—here are career-preservation tips for 2013 and beyond.
December 18, 2012
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By Gabe Goldberg
Chargeback can impose discipline on resource consumption, influence user behavior in desired directions, provide ROI data on initiatives and justify allocating costs to paying customers. And accumulating cost/billing figures aids user budgeting, which allows better data center workload and configuration planning.
November 07, 2012
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By Gabe Goldberg
Big data was a big focus at the recent SHARE conference in Anaheim, Calif. Event organizers devoted two days of conference content to a Big Data Spotlight with a concentration of sessions designed to address the “most pressing big data questions and concerns” of its community.
September 12, 2012
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By Bob Dirkes
Anyone who's worked with mainframes has heard cringe-worthy comments about them: misconceptions, misinformation, misunderstandings, etc. While it's tempting to ignore such nonsense, doing so doesn't serve your career, employer or the mainframe community.
June 11, 2012
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By Gabe Goldberg
To put big data into perspective, organizations look to analytics tools to address three factors: velocity, variety and volume.
April 16, 2012
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By Renee Boucher Ferguson
IBM has invested heavily in big data analytics, spending more than $14 billion on more than two-dozen analytics-related acquisitions over the past five years. It expects to generate $16 billion in revenue by 2015, according to published reports.
March 21, 2012
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By Renee Boucher Ferguson
Mention the word “mainframe,” and you’re apt to conjure up images of monolithic systems humming along reliably and dependably in the background of modern data centers.
February 03, 2012
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By Dennis O’Flynn
Realizing big data’s vast potential requires organizations to understand the value of the large volumes of data they generate and process, and act upon it.
December 12, 2011
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By Pedro Pereira
Despite predictions of doom and gloom, collaborative efforts among businesses, universities, vendors and independent industry organizations will forestall any IT skills shortfall.
November 01, 2011
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By Joe Clabby