Wednesday, April 11, 2007

SAS Brings Enterprise Intelligence Platform to IBM System z

SAS Brings Enterprise Intelligence Platform to IBM System z

11 Apr 2007

SAS has tightly integrated its Enterprise Intelligence Platform – which includes data integration, intelligence storage, business intelligence and analytics software – with the IBM System z mainframe.

In addition, the introduction of sub-capacity pricing provides SAS mainframe customers with a cost-effective way of adding new workloads and new applications to the System z platform, says this news report.

Read the full news report from here @ ebizQ

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Thursday, April 5, 2007

IBM Encourages Customers to Bring BI Back to the Mainframe

IBM Encourages Customers to Bring BI Back to the Mainframe

By Stephen Swoyer, 4/4/2007

IBM is pursuing a number of pricing stratagems to make the mainframe a more affordable proposition on both hardware and software. One such is its zSeries Integrated Information Processor, or zIIP. zIIP is in essence a software license that lets customers host data-intensive workloads often associated with business intelligence (BI) or data warehousing (DW) on z/OS at a substantially reduced cost. IBM hopes with this effort to reverse the exodus from mainframes and to recast the System z as an alternative to distributed Windows, Unix, and Linux systems for BI and DW.

zIIPs were conceived with four primary scenarios in mind: remote JDBC and ODBC access to DB2 on z/OS; BI queries; parallel query processing; and DB2 utilities processing.

Read the full news report from here @ Enterprise Systems

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Sunday, April 1, 2007

IBM VSE mainframe operating system gets upgrade

IBM VSE mainframe operating system gets upgrade

By Mark Fontecchio, 21 Mar 2007 | SearchDataCenter.com

IBM has upgraded the VSE mainframe operating system to include storage, security and networking improvements, as well as introduced pricing schemes to lower mainframe software licensing costs.

With z/VSE 4.1, IBM has introduced pricing with a so-called subcapacity measurement tool. Using this, mainframers can pay for the MIPS that they use on z/VSE, rather than being charged for how many total MIPS are on the box. The z/VSE 4.1 is now generally available.

Read the full news report from here @ Tech Target

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