IT Infrastructure News

New process creates 15-times-faster memory in 90 percent smaller package.

IBM announced this week that technology allowing IBM zEnterprise System users to integrate Microsoft Windows applications into the mainframe environment--an industry first--will become available December 16. The new capability will allow clients with multi-tier applications--for example, Windows applications connected to mainframe data--to be integrated and consolidated on the same system. 

Company ships Zing 5.0, the Industry’s only JVM that is specifically architected and optimized for Linux.

IBM and Eurotech have announced that they are contributing software to accelerate and support the development of a new generation of smarter wireless and mobile devices. The technology, which could become the basis for a new standard of mobile connectivity and interoperability, will be contributed to the Eclipse Foundation open source community. The Eclipse Foundation, founded by IBM in 2001, is celebrating its 10th anniversary at EclipseCon in Germany.

Latest version allows users to create separate IFS Groups to organize, manage, and better control backups. 

Among the numerous updates are enhancements designed to optimize ISV support, while improvements to DB2 for i address performance, administration of secure database connections, and application development and performance tuning. 

Organizations can unify VDI solutions around a single operating system and management platform to better realize advantages of desktop virtualization. 

SPHiNX 1U form factor virtual tape appliance announced at COMMON designed for small business, while 3U version now holds up to 35TB internally, even more compressed.