We found it very interesting that the Chinese appear to have fallen in love with the mainframe. This led us to do some research into why this should have happened. Our investigation uncovered a number of reasons, historical and cultural, that could account for this situation. Incidentally, we also learned something about the Chinese, as [...]

HP recently provided an overview of their cloud strategy, which it calls HP Converged Cloud.  HP Converged Cloud consists of HP’s cloud architecture, as well as the hardware, software and services necessary to implement and manage HP’s standard cloud delivery options: public, private, managed (by HP) private and hybrid cloud options. With its cloud architecture [...]

IBM introduced its new IBM® PureFlex™ System as part of its family of “expert integrated systems”. In this paper, we describe the system and the unique management capabilities of the IBM Flex System Manager. IBM’s goals in designing and building these systems were to return agility, efficiency, simplicity and control to data center operations. This [...]