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Ibm Continues To Simplify Mainframe
(InfoWorld) - IBM Corp. is releasing more software to make it easier to program, manage and administer its mainframes in an ongoing bid to attract more customers to purchase its big iron hardware instead of high-end servers. The move is part of a five-year, $100 million project IBM began in October tosimplify use of its System z mainframe. At that time, IBM released a variety of tools and services including a new mainframe management console, better software asset management capabilities and Health Checker for z/OS, a monitoring and configuration tuning tool. The new enhancements IBM announced for its System z software Tuesday cover security, systems and data management and virtualization. The vendor made the announcements at the Share conference in Tampa, Florida. Turning 52 this year, Share, an independent IBM user group, is one of the world's oldest user associations. Both IBM and Share have been spearheading a number of initiatives in recent years designed to raise the profile of the mainframe. These include zNextGen, a project to get IT students interested in gaining mainframe expertise and then embarking on careers in big iron, which both organizations see as very important given that many skilled mainframe operators are reaching retirement age. As part of Tuesday's announcements, IBM unveiled a new version of its database -- DB2 9 for z/OS -- due out in the first half of this year along with a suite of DB2 tools. The vendor is also enhancing its Tivoli monitoring family of availability and performance management tools including Omegamon z/OS Management Console. IBM acquired the Omegamon technology through the June 2004 purchase of Candle. IBM has translated the Omegamon software into Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. Also new is z/VM version 5.3, an improved release of IBM's mainframe virtualization software with a focus on expanding the technology's scalability to host over 1,000 virtual images on a single hypervisor. The vendor has also worked on simplifying the management of Z/VM running on the Linux operating system. On the middleware side, IBM is releasing WebSphere Developer for System z version 7.0 and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository for z/OS version 6.0. Both offerings are designed to help users as they adopt the service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to development so they can more easily expose their mainframe data as Web services. Turning to security, IBM debuted the Consul zSecure Suite version 1.8 which enables z/OS users to create and review XML security audits on their mainframe data.The vendor acquired Consul in January to beef up the compliance and security auditing capabilities of its Tivoli systems management software and is working on integrating Consul's zSecure software with Tivoli. ... More

Ibm Accuses Mainframe Company Of Patent Infringement
(InfoWorld) - IBM Corp. says a Sunnyvale, California, company has infringed its patents by creating computers that allow customers to run IBM's System z operating systems and software on mainframes from other vendors. That action amounts to breach of contract and patent infringement, IBM claimed Nov. 29 in a lawsuit filed against Platform Solutions Inc. (PSI) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Founded in 1999, PSI is now testing its product with beta customers, and preparing to launch it in 2007. PSI's emulator system enables a server using Intel Corp.'s Itanium 2 processors to simultaneously run operating systems including IBM's z/OS, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, Linux and Unix. IBM's current generation of System z products include zSeries servers and System z9 servers, both running on IBM's 64-bit z/Architecture and z/OS operating system, and both using software such as IBM's Database 2 (DB2) and Customer Information Control System (CICS). From PSI's point of view, its "patented microcode technology" enables standard, open-system Itanium processors to run the IBM z/OS operating system. But IBM describes those same machines as servers that mimic IBM computer architectures so they can run IBM software. IBM claims that practice violates its software licenses, and has asked a judge to assign damages and terminate PSI's licenses. "PSI's marketing program is a blatant attempt to infringe on IBM's intellectual property and to convert to PSI the fruits of IBM's substantial investments in developing computer systems, architectures, operating systems and other software," the lawsuit said. In turn, PSI has threatened to sue IBM for violating antitrust laws by refusing to extend the software license, the lawsuit said. So IBM also asked the judge to deny that claim. The two companies were once on better terms. In August, PSI demonstrated its emulator system at a meeting of SHARE, the IBM user group. A spokesman for SHARE said the group had a practice of declining comment on IBM management and legal issues. One possible defense by PSI will be to argue that Ronald Hilton, the company's founder and chief technology officer, actually holds a patent for the emulator system. PSI did not respond to a request for comment. A statement on PSI's Web site says, "PSI is very disappointed that IBM has resorted to litigation. While we recognize that we are a competitor of IBM, PSI has always sought and continues to seek a normal commercial relationship. ... PSI is confident in its legal position." A spokesman for IBM declined to comment on the lawsuit.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.... More

Ibm: Ibm Offers no Charge For Freight On Asset Recovery Solutions For Rest Of 2006
LAKE BUENA VISTA, FL (MARKET WIRE) GARTNER IT & Software Asset Management Summit -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced details of its latest promotion to make it easier for companies to safely dispose of their unused IT assets. Available immediately through December 15, 2006, IBM will eliminate transportation costs on IBM and non-IBM PC notebooks, desktops and Intel based servers for clients who enter into selected new IBM asset recovery... More

Ibm, Partners Team For Rational Integration
IBM and two partners, Agile Software and PTC, team up to support integration of IBM Rational technology with their own. ... More

Ibm Supports Cisco Aon
IBM's Robert LeBlanc discusses how two industry leaders, Cisco and IBM, work together to help customers simplify IT infrastructure.... More

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