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We had a blast in San Antonio and are already gearing up for SHARE Atlanta this summer. So what’s next? That’s up to YOU.
The SHARE Atlanta Call for Presentations is open through April 15 to all enterprise IT professionals who would like to showcase their expertise. Share your opinions, experiences, challenges and fresh approaches with industry peers and submit a session on any one of the hottest topics facing enterprise IT professionals today, including SHARE’s latest hot topic: New and Innovative Workloads for z Systems.
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| | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | IBM Speeds Time to Insights with z/OS Platform for Apache Spark | IBM says it is making it easier and faster for organizations to access and analyze data in-place on the IBM z Systems mainframe with a new z/OS Platform for Apache Spark. The platform enables Spark to run natively on the z/OS mainframe operating system.
Full Article |  | | Micro Focus to Round out Application Management Portfolio with Serena Purchase | Micro Focus, an enterprise infrastructure solutions provider, plans to acquire Serena Software, Inc., a provider of application lifecycle management software, in a deal valued at $540 million. The transaction is expected to close in early May 2016, subject to receipt of competition clearances in the U.S. and Germany.
Full Article | | | Dynatrace and HCL Open Up User Experiences | Dynatrace, a performance tools vendor, has formed a global partnership with HCL Technologies, an IT services company. HCL will leverage Dynatrace’s digital performance management technologies within HCL’s DryICE platform to deliver user experience and application monitoring to HCL customers. HCL will leverage Dynatrace Synthetic and Real User Monitoring to empower digital business owners to drive more business and superior customer experience through better insights into their users’ mobile and web experiences.
Full Article | | | AppFormix and Intel Take on “Noisy Neighbors” in Cloud | AppFormix has integrated Intel Resource Director Technology (Intel RDT) into its performance monitoring platform, delivering performance improvements that address the “noisy neighbor” problem common to multi-tenant cloud environments. Intel RDT technology is available in the recently announced Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family.
Full Article | | | | | | | | Here’s What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe | Connor Krukosky is an 18 year old college student with a hobby of collecting vintage computers. One day, he decided to buy his own mainframe...an IBM z890.
This is his story.
Connor's presentation 'I just Bought an IBM z890 - Now What?' - was featured at SHARE in San Antonio in March, 2016.
View the full video, available now on mindSHARE. | | | | | | | | Only One in 20 Federal Data Centers Ready for the Near Future, Study Finds | A new study of 150 federal government IT managers suggests data center modernization can save at least $10 billion a year, or about one-seventh of current IT spending. Just 11% of federal IT managers believe their data centers are ready to meet agency missions today.
These are the findings of MeriTalk, a public-private partnership focused on improving the outcomes of government IT. The 5-year outlook is bleak, with less than 5% reporting their data centers have the security, speed, and capacity they need to meet the data center demands of 2021. More than half (60%) of respondents say their agency would save at least 20% of their IT budget if they successfully address data center power consumption, capacity, footprint, speed, and security – that’s nearly $10 billion in annual savings.
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