by Mainline Marketing | Mar 23, 2020 | Enterprise Systems, Software
Software licensing for IBM Z Systems can be a complicated and confusing topic, and Monthly License Charge (MLC) software costs can really add up. Most end users of IBM Z, even application developers, do not have any real understanding of how IBM licenses are charged...
by Mainline Marketing | Dec 9, 2019 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems Recently, IBM Power Systems published an AIX Strategy and Roadmap whitepaper (see my blog article Is AIX Dead? IBM Publishes AIX Strategy and Roadmap Document). At the time the AIX paper was released, many people asked, “What about...
by Mainline Marketing | Nov 14, 2019 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems Recently, IBM Power Systems (IBM Systems group) made several announcements of upcoming systems software updates with new functionality. These announcements are a combination of software support directly from developers (i.e....
by Mainline Marketing | Nov 12, 2019 | Enterprise Systems
Kurt Repholz VP zSystems Sales Nearly 20 years ago, Linux on IBM’s mainframes arrived. I begin this adventure with Linux on IBM Z in 2004 when SUSE entered North America for the first time. During those early days, we were all experimenting with this technology...
by Mainline Marketing | Sep 30, 2019 | Enterprise Systems
Ron Gordon Director » Power Systems I have heard concerns that IBM is trending away from AIX. Just recently, IBM released a document titled IIBM AIX – An executive guide to the strategy and roadmap for the AIX Operating System for IBM Power Systems. I believe that...
by Mainline Marketing | Sep 13, 2019 | Enterprise Systems
Kurt Repholz VP zSystems Sales IBM announced the new enterprise system that fits nicely in a 19” rack form factor, resulting in a 25% reduction in space from the z14. Now, the enterprise IBM Z system resides with other data center servers. IBM included 102...
