Mainframe computers shed their unwieldy tag, get back in fashion.
Byline: Preethi Chamikutty For long, mainframe computers were just the thing you read about in school and forgot. The onslaught of personal computers and Web servers had given mainframes the image of clunky, old-fashioned computing giants. Well, the wheel has turned a full circle and mainframe computers...

Speedware Joins Lead Point in Introducing XFRAME Re-Hosting Solution to North American Market.
MONTREAL, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Speedware Ltd., a subsidiary of Activant Solutions Inc. and a leading provider of IT modernization solutions and productivity tools, today announced an alliance with Lead Point, Inc. to introduce XFRAME(R) to the North American mainframe market. Lead Point is the exclusive North American distributor...

SPEEDWARE JOINS LEAD IN INTRODUCING XFRAME REHOSTING.
Speedware Ltd., Montreal, a subsidiary of Activant Solutions Inc. and a leading provider of IT modernization solutions and productivity tools, has announced an alliance with Lead Point, Inc. to introduce XFRAME(R) to the North American mainframe market. Lead Point is the exclusive North American distributor of XFRAME, a re-hosting...

A savings twofer: efforts to reduce the costs of operating the district data center are also producing positive benefits for the environment.
WITH THE COST OF electricity and consumer goods rising as rapidly as the economy deflates, the decision of many school districts to go green has been one born of necessity and reared by technology. Districts are finding that using technologies to cut their expenses is a positive upshot of...

Progressing from the ways and days of the UNIVAC: before groaning about how slow the insurance industry is when it comes to technological adoption, think of how far it's come.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Summary * Insurance carriers were among the first companies to adopt mainframe computers, buying the UNIVAC 1 in the early 1950s. * Early on, IBM made inroads with carriers seeking stable and secure platforms to process their loss data. Big Blue...

The tortoise and the hare: property/casualty carriers were the first companies to adopt mainframes, but have since lagged in adopting other technologies, proving once more that the industry insists on moving at its own pace.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Summary * Carders hit a home run end were ahead of many industries by adopting mainframes as their primary hardware platforms. * On the software side, enalytics have developed at warp speed in the past decade, helping companies to mine their...

Debt of gratitude: Japanese bank running on Indian IT.
Byline: Dibeyendu Ganguly There was a time when Shinsei Bank had so many Indian software engineers working at its headquarters in Tokyo that the company canteen introduced a range of curries on its menu. The software engineers were from TCS, Wipro, Infosys, iFlex, Polaris, Nucleus and their...

Mainframe lessons: slowly moving to non-mainframe systems.
Storage demand grows faster than the effective deployment of management tools, and the supply of trained people to manage storage has fallen behind the demand. Have you ever heard comments to this effect before? The IT community worldwide is anxiously awaiting the point in time when it is perceived...

Balancing innovation with tradition: maintaining a relevant college music curriculum.
Technology is a cohesive bridge to the fine arts and often changes the context of study, creation, and performance of music. Personal computers, MIDI, synthesizers and software are changing the way educators present the fundamental principles of music. As college departments strive to maintain a relevant college music curriculum,...

Big Iron's back: after flirting with newer, distributed technology systems, insurers are taking a fresh look at the ones they originally brought to the dance. They're seeing new promise, and serious savings, in an old familiar technology--their mainframes.
Even in laid-back Hawaii, agents don't want to wait until tomorrow for a reply from an insurer. They want it today. So when Hawaii's largest property/casualty insurer sought to meet the demand for a response time measured in minutes instead of days, it looked to its technology. ...