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New compiler improves application performance and helps modernize COBOL business applications running on System z ARMONK, N.Y., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new software to help organizations extend crucial business applications running on System z mainframes to web, cloud and mobile environments. The software's performance improvements will enable companies to significantly reduce operating costs while helping businesses seamlessly and efficiently...

Simulation-Testing Application Saves Time, Reduces System z Problems LAS VEGAS, March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanguard Integrity Professionals, the experts on information security for System z(®), today unveiled Vanguard Offline(TM) a new application that reduces RACF errors and problems with System z production environments. Vanguard Offline, available immediately, is a simulation-testing application that allows security administrators to test and analyze how new RACF commands...

New Application Automatically Monitors, Reports, Removes Unused RACF Profiles LAS VEGAS, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanguard Integrity Professionals, the experts on information security for System z(®), today announced the immediate availability of Vanguard Cleanup(TM), a new application designed to improve enterprise security and streamline audit and compliance requirements. Vanguard Cleanup automatically monitors IBM RACF databases, identifies and reports on unreferenced,...

HOPKINTON, Mass., Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- News Summary: EMC and IBM are extending their existing technology licensing agreement by one year through 2017, to provide IBM zEnterprise customers with storage interoperability interfaces and technical support. The multi-year history of commitment and collaboration between EMC and IBM continues to enable customers to deploy combinations of EMC® VMAX® storage and IBM System z technologies--including the new IBM zEnterprise...

ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- New, cutting-edge System z® capabilities for security and analytics dramatically boost cloud performance with help from IBM Research innovations. zEC12 offers 25% more performance per core, over 100 configurable cores and 50% more total capacity than its predecessor. The result of over $1 billion in IBM R&D investment and collaborative client input on today's enterprise system challenges. IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the...

RALEIGH, N.C., June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Maintec Technologies launches zLinux-in-a-Box(SM), a service that offers corporations a capability to outsource their Linux environment to Maintec Data Center. Linux on System z offers combined core strength of Mainframe along with the openness and stability of Linux platform offering an optimized, budget-friendly IT infrastructure. The combination is capable of transforming any traditional IT environment into a much more dynamic one by...

LAS VEGAS, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanguard Integrity Professionals today announced that CA Technologies is a co-sponsor of Vanguard Security and Compliance 2012, the world's largest, and only, educational forum dedicated to information technology security training for IBM® System z®, IBM® RACF®, CA ACF2(TM) and CA Top Secret® for large enterprise and datacenter security. At the event, David Hodgson, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Product Management for CA's...

Sponsorship Supports Ongoing Security Education, Best Practices to Mainframe User Base Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) March 28, 2012 Vanguard Integrity Professionals, the experts on information security for IBM® System z®, today announced IBM Systems Magazine, an industry publication for IBM Mainframe and Power Systems customers, as the official media sponsor of Vanguard Security and Compliance 2012. As the world’s largest educational forum dedicated to modern information technology...

Vanguard zSecurity University Introduces 2012 Enterprise Security and Compliance Courses Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) January 25, 2012 Vanguard Integrity Professionals, the experts on information security for System z®, today announced its latest security and compliance education and training initiative for information technology security professionals. Vanguard zSecurity University™ provides year-round z/OS® and RACF® security and compliance training. Vanguard zSecurity...

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CA WORLD - CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced two new, integrated roles and a new release of its revolutionary CA Mainframe Chorus unified management workspace, greatly extending its capabilities to modernize mainframe administration. In addition to the DB2 for z/OS management role included with the first release of CA Mainframe Chorus, the new release extends its innovative management paradigm with two new roles -- CA Mainframe Chorus for...