Suncorp has consolidated its mainframe applications onto one new platform, following the completion of a major part of its Promina IT integration plans.
IBM Global Services Australia has signed a deal which will see the services provider managing Air New Zealand’s IT systems.
Marrying technology from opposite poles of the computer industry, IBM and a multiplayer online game company are working to integrate the Cell game console processor with Big Blue's mainframe computers.
update: The Australian Customs Service has dished out the first slice of work resulting from the lapsing of a giant AU$550 million outsourcing deal with EDS, awarding a AU$160 million mainframe processing contract to IBM.
Farmers' Trading Company (FTC), the New Zealand department store chain, has virtually retired its old IBM mainframe after a three year system upgrade and consolidation.
Leading Australian companies HCF, ANZ Bank, Westpac and St George share their ups and downs with the mighty mainframe in this special report.
Service oriented architectures (SOAs) can ease application development but they impose a significant administrative burden. David Braue finds out how Scandinavian Airlines dealt with the challenge of SOA proliferation with flying colours.
Unisys, one of the few companies remaining in the mainframe market, will begin selling a new high-end system Monday that includes features to run advanced software.
An international airline is turning to Linux, in a move touted to provide consolidation of distributed environments and cost savings.
In this third instalment of our ongoing series, we take a look at four integration projects, the problems they faced, and how the organisations involved overcame them.
Despite the endless pressure to install the latest and greatest, many of the core technologies which are in use in the modern enterprise have been around for decades, if not centuries.
The '60s and '70s were the decades of the mainframe. The '80s made up the decade of client-server computing. The '90s were the Internet years. Now we're entering the decade of the electronic butler.
Production-quality XenSource virtualisation is the main selling point here, with optional clustering and storage virtualisation to go with it. But there's a lot more besides, making the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux a compelling solution for businesses of all sizes.
Linus Torvalds has published the last release of the current Linux development kernel, clearing the way for work on the next version of the operating system core.
Tivoli Systems has announced Tivoli Smart Handheld Device manager which allows operations staff to manage anything from a mainframe computer to a personal digital assistant (PDA) using the same management paradigm and user interface.
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