SHARE to Emphasize Business Continuity at Upcoming Conference
by Dan Burger

Aligning business requirements with IT capabilities has captured the attention of many C-level executives and landed on the desks of many IT managers. It's assumed the top brass know what they want, but often they don't. Implementing business continuity plans is still evolving, even after years of development at the highest levels of global business. Because of this dichotomy, the IT professional organization known as SHARE has made it the focal point of its next conference. READ MORE >

Top Mainframe Stories from Around the Web

(dbaDIRECT) This company has just announced it will, for the first time, support the IBM z/OS operating system with its data infrastructure management products. In making this announcement, the company CEO referenced a "continuing renaissance for big iron computing coupled with a shrinking labor pool of IT professionals with mainframe skills as two reasons dbaDIRECT has entered this arena. READ MORE >

(DataMirror) Integrating data in mainframe environments now includes support for DB2 Version 9.1 when using Transformation Server for z/OS from DataMirror, a company that IBM is in the process of purchasing because it wants the Transformation Server technology. Highlights of this enhanced support include increased capabilities in the areas of conflict detection and resolution, as well as throughput, latency, and CPU utilization statistics. READ MORE >

(BMC Software) You can hear your boss yelling even though the door to his office is closed. "Bring me some solutions that integrate across mainframe and distributed systems." OK, boss, here you go. Let's start to track, monitor, and evaluate transactions in real-time from back-end mainframe processing to front-end distributed systems. READ MORE >

(Brocade) Same boss as above. Different rant. This time it's about a more comprehensive view of storage networks with better analytic and reporting capabilities, including support for mainframe FICON environments. It's time to automate the tracking of mainframe infrastructures, including data paths to switches and storage assets, to document configurations, and to simplify change management. READ MORE >

(IT Jungle) The Itanium Solutions Alliance, a group of hardware, systems software, and application software vendors that formed to back the development of applications for Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor, has joined Microsoft's Mainframe Migration Alliance, the group announced last week. READ MORE >

Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings

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August 12-17 -- San Diego, California - IBM technical training tailored for enterprise-class IT professionals will be featured at the SHARE user conference. More than 700 technical sessions and hands-on labs will be presented by industry experts, top developers, and experienced users. Session topics range from implementation of new software releases to in-depth views of the latest technologies. Session topics will include services-oriented architecture, Web services, ITIL, and mobile computing. A preconference workshop on DB2 for z/OS is also on the agenda. If you don't know about SHARE, you should. It has been educating IT professionals since 1955--the longest history of any IT user group. LEARN MORE >

September 17-21 San Antonio, Texas - The IBM System z Conference and Expo presents sessions on topics such as virtualization, security, resiliency, workload management, and integration. More than 350 in-depth elective sessions will highlight IBM System z9 and zSeries and Systems Storage. The sessions are divided into the following focus areas: General Interest and Management, z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE and Linux. LEARN MORE >

October 8-11 -- Orlando, Florida - The IBM WebSphere Portal Technical Conference will feature the latest product upgrades and platform extensions for the popular middleware. Among the highlights will be an emphasis on faster deployment of composite applications, enhanced Web 2.0 support, simplified portal-based solutions, and increased integration with business processes. IBM product architects and developers, business partners, and customers will provide training, case studies, and best practices information. Certification testing will be available and a vendor expo will be included. LEARN MORE >

December 2-7 -- San Diego, California - The 33rd annual Computer Measurement Group conference, CMG2007, brings together data processing professionals interested in system evaluation to maximize performance measured in terms of response time, throughput, and through capacity management. Sessions are geared toward making enhancements to existing systems or designing new systems with the aim of providing adequate performance at a reasonable cost. The courses are divided into two groups. One group consists of platform agnostic sessions and provides attendees with basic knowledge that is independent of any specific hardware or operating system. The second group is platform specific specializing in operating systems such as z/OS, Windows, Unix and Linux. LEARN MORE >