Savvy IT pros have been tinkering with mainframe partitioning for years. But with the sudden proliferation of single-task servers, especially for the Internet, partitioning big iron to consolidate ...

Aside from getting up to speed on what it means to run Linux on a mainframe, I learned a few other things, thanks to ZDNet's readers who responded to my column on how SuSE is infusing "Blue" blood (as ...

Here's a bit from the introduction to a recent article by Ken Milberg under the title ""="">. Today's new breed of smaller, cheaper mainframes, paired with the Linux operating system, look like an ...

Cost containment is an important IT department goal in this day and age of financial austerity. Every decision regarding your computing environment must be weighed not only against the value it can ...

BMC Software has extended its efforts to help IT organizations keep their mainframe software licensing fees under control to now include DB2, IMS and IBM CICS transaction processing software. The BMC ...