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4 Key Benefits of Mainframe Hosting | Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

The mainframe sector grew in 2018 and is expected to continue its growth well into 2019 and beyond. This growth is due to several factors, including the mainframe’s unmatched reliability, performance, and security. While mainframes still support many critical workloads and applications, for some organizations, mainframes can seem expensive and troublesome to maintain. Enter mainframe…

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3 Mainframe Disaster Recovery Challenges

Your mainframe is the backbone of your organization. It likely handles your mission-critical workloads and most sensitive data. Even if your mainframe’s hardware and software are rock-solid, what happens if your mainframe or supporting infrastructure fails due to a catastrophic event, such as a fire, a natural disaster, a network failure, or a major issue…

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z14 ZR1 Features and Functions

Mainframes have been toiling behind the scenes in colleges, hospitals, banks, and other medium-to-large organizations for decades. For a time, it seemed that servers would take the place of mainframes. However, with the growing need for robust security, fast performance, and big data analytics, the mainframe has only increased in importance. Here are a few…

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Replication Interfaces: CLI or Copy Services Manager?

This article will look at the features and capabilities of IBM Copy Services Manager. This powerful software configures, manages, and monitors data-copy functions used by storage systems. As a group, these functions are known as copy services. Created in concert with IBM Z Mainframe Systems, Copy Services Manager is a flexible, secure, and performance-driven storage…

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