Mainframes

Galeries Lafayette Group is a leading retailer in France, with stores that include Galeries Lafayette and Nouvelles Galeries department stores, the Monoprix supermarket chain and BHV stores, which specialize in home decor and appliances. Like many businesses, SDDC's IT infrastructure has become increasingly distributed and complex over time. SDDC looked to IBM to propose an autonomic computing strategy that would enable the company to infuse self-managing capabilities into its infrastructure. Through its Autonomic Readiness Assessment, IBM Global Services evaluated the autonomic computing maturity level of SDDC's IT infrastructure and proposed solutions and a roadmap to increase its autonomic computing capabilities. tech news

Generali USA, headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, is the former life reinsurance division of Business Men's Assurance Company (BMA). Generali USA's mixed environment of CA-Datacom and Oracle databases failed on several counts to serve the company's strategic needs going forward. Not only was the CA-Datacom software difficult to query, integrate and maintain the mixture of platforms in general led to the growth of information silos that raised maintenance costs and slowed the process of product changes and application development. Turning to IBM, the company decided to, migrate its separate information management systems to IBM DB2 Universal Database. tech news

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This paper provides information that is needed when one is planning to purchase an IBM eserver pSeries 650, 670, or 690 server with Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD) features. Information about managing a server that has CUoD features is included to help one to consider the CUoD activation choices that will be best for your needs. This paper points out key considerations when using capacity-planning tools for the CUoD offerings. tech news

This white paper describes how Micro-Partitioning can be employed on the IBM eserver p5 570 with AIX 5L V5.3 to set up flexible partitioned configurations for dynamic workload balancing of available CPU resources. This paper covers several workload scenarios that demonstrate the performance robustness of Micro- Partitioning in a mixed transactional and batch environment. This paper also describes how special features of the IBM eserver p5 570 with AIX 5L V5.3 allows clients to do dynamic workload balancing between independent partitions and shows inter-partition performance effects. tech news