That's important, says a user at Marist College, because the school is relying on more virtual machines on its mainframe to supply computer science students with the environments they need. It is ...

A team of mainframe computing veterans today is launching a set of products for streamlining access to big iron data and announcing $2.2 million in seed financing. VirtualZ Computing Corp. is ...

IBM is expanding its “buy-as-you-need” utility approach to Linux on the mainframe. In an announcement today, IBM said it will offer customers capacity as needed by creating virtual Linux servers on ...

In its first SUSE-related product offering since it acquired Novell earlier last year, Attachmate has expanded the reach of SUSE Studio-based virtual appliances to include mainframes. “With this tool, ...

Luminex Software, Inc., a developer and provider of disk-based mainframe virtual tape products and technologies, announced at the SHARE IBM User Group conference in Anaheim, an enhanced version of its ...

Oracle has announced the StorageTek Virtual Library Extension (VLE), one of the industry's first highly scalable second tiers of disk storage that optimizes tape processing in mainframe environments.

The server giant plans to reveal this week a timeline for N1, a project to develop software that will let servers and storage devices act as one big virtual mainframe. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

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‘One of the hardest things for people to digest is that we're not making a copy of the data. We're not replicating the data. We're not touching the data. The data stays on the mainframe. So now ...