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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

HVB Bank Biochim (www.biochim.com/en) is the fourth largest bank in Bulgaria in terms of assets. When HVB Bank Biochim's rapid growth began to impact on the performance of its core banking systems, the bank looked to IBM for a new solution. Kirchman worked with IBM Bulgaria to size a new solution for HVB Bank Biochim, resulting in the implementation of a new IBM eServer z800, and the migration of existing systems to z/OS. They migrated legacy mainframe systems to z/OS on a new IBM eServer zSeries 800, added a second z800 as backup, implemented two IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server 800 systems. tech news

Attend this webcast to hear about how to, port and migrate OpenVMS, VAX, and Alpha application code to Itanium hardware platforms. The experts on these platforms have compiled their best practices to make your quest easier. The session will highlight tips and tricks that they use, and should prove valuable to your job of porting and support of a solution. Areas addressed will include the build environment, compiler usage, floating point, setting quotas, debugging, and deployment of the solution. tech news

Organizations using i5/OS (formerly iSeries) for development of critical business systems are increasingly realizing the need to modernize applications, staying in sync with the ongoing evolution of this platform. CA's AllFusion 2E has been providing a powerful development environment for more than 15 years; those same systems can be easily modernized through web enablement facilities and the ability to build Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) or Web services components. Join CA's AllFusion 2E product management and technical services teams for this informative web broadcast that highlights new features in the upcoming version 8.1 - which features trigger programs and the creation or consumption of Web services. tech news

For Impol, dealing with around 400 customers in 25 countries by phone, fax and letter was proving inefficient and slow. For every alloy product enquiry, a critical Certificate of Quality describing the precise chemical and physical properties had to be printed out and faxed to the customer prior to sale. All stock level and order process enquiries were manual, too. To meet this need, they developed a new service, called ePIS (e-Production Information System), which gives customers fast access to live data over the Web. The solution was implemented on an IBM eServer zSeries Multiprise 3000 G5 server running VSE/ESA and z/VM. tech news