| Stories In Detail | | | ‘Big Data and the Enterprise’ – don’t miss this IBM and Gartner webcast Gartner analyst Donald Feinberg will discuss the impact big data can have on businesses, and the role of the mainframe in realizing big data’s potential. And IBM’s Mark Simmonds will lay out the roadmap for the IBM System z software™ portfolio for big data. Join us July 11 – register and mark your calendar |  | | | IMS is smarter than ever – preview new IMS 13 IMS® is IBM’s premier transaction and hierarchical database management system, virtually unsurpassed in database and transaction processing availability and speed. Learn how IMS 13 lowers total cost of ownership and streamlines enterprise integration, while delivering the highest levels of availability, performance, security and scalability in the industry. See what's new in IMS 13 |  | | | IBM Mobile Messaging and M2M Client: Connect mobile devices to WebSphere MQ on z/OS The IBM Mobile Messaging and M2M Client – part of the WebSphere® MQ Client Pack for Mobile – consumes messages from a wide array of endpoints, ranging from applications running on Android and iOS devices, to sensors and telemetry devices found in monitors and meters. Learn more |  | | | Extend the reach of your COBOL, C/C++ and PL/l programs to mobile devices The CICS® Transaction Server Feature Pack for Mobile Extensions V1.0 is ideal for building mobile applications that exploit existing enterprise services hosted within the CICS environment – without making costly changes to those services. Get the details |  | | | Put an end to mainframe scripting with policy-driven automation The newest member of the IBM System Automation family, IBM Automation Control for z/OS (IACz) quickly and easily replaces manual methods of automating your single-mainframe environment – reducing your operations workload, improving availability, and lowering your risk. Read the IACz brochure (PDF, 1.1MB) |  | | | Deliver secure, rich, interactive business intelligence to mobile devices – watch the demo IBM Cognos® Mobile for z/OS lets users view and interact with Cognos dashboards, reports, metrics and other information on their mobile devices. Give your users the timely information they need to make better decisions – anytime, anywhere. Watch ‘Mobile BI with Cognos Enterprise’ |  | | | Develop once, deploy anywhere with new IBM Rational V9 IDEs New IBM Rational® Developer for System z V9 and Rational Developer for the Enterprise V9 provide a single comprehensive integrated development environment (IDE) across multiple enterprise platforms – plus tight integration with IBM Worklight®, for extending back-end services and data to mobile devices. Learn what’s new in these and other V9 IDEs |  | | | Ramp up on new Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V5.1 – where innovation meets tradition New IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V5.1 includes advanced technology for optimizing COBOL applications to fully exploit z/Architecture – while maintaining source and binary compatibility with older COBOL releases on System z. Replay a recent webcast, ‘Full steam ahead with business-critical COBOL applications on System z.’ Read more in IBM Systems online |  | | | There’s more: See all the latest software for System z and zEnterprise New IBM Software for System z provides solutions for data, cloud, mobile, security, and application development – cross-platform solutions that combine leading-edge technology with the unparalleled performance of the System z platform. It’s a portfolio that delivers impressive results for your business, and your bottom line. Take a look |  | | | Stay ahead – with new IBM Rational solutions for software and product delivery Accelerate innovation, streamline governance and compliance, and manage cost and quality with a DevOps approach to application development that drives continuous delivery of software and services – and with new capabilities that help product and systems development teams improve traceability, access and collaboration. Learn more |  | | | Achieve sustained software-driven innovation with the IBM DevOps approach The IBM DevOps approach applies agile and lean thinking principles to all stakeholders who develop, operate, or benefit from your software systems – including line of business, customers, and partners – to help you quickly transform business ideas into the solutions your customers want. Read the new technical white paper, DevOps: The IBM approach. Explore IBM DevOps products and capabilities |  | | | IBM expands its DevOps portfolio with new cloud and mobile offerings The new software, training and resources expand the capabilities of IBM’s SmartCloud and MobileFirst offerings – and helps your organization to continuously and rapidly create, test and deliver mobile and cloud applications. Read the press release |  | | | Turn complexity into opportunity – and accelerate delivery of innovative products and systems New capabilities across IBM Rational® product and systems development solutions provide improved traceability across the application development lifecycle, allow simpler access to all engineering information, and enable greater collaboration across engineering disciplines. Jump directly to the product announcements. Learn more |  | | | IBM to acquire SoftLayer and form new Cloud Services Division The acquisition of SoftLayer Technologies, Inc., world’s largest privately held cloud computing infrastructure provider, will strengthen IBM’s leadership position in cloud computing, and will help speed business adoption of public and private cloud solutions. Read a Q&A with Lance Crosby, CEO, SoftLayer, on the significance of the announcement. Learn more about the acquisition |  | | | The evolution of a more open, more integrated cloud: Introducing IBM BlueMix Pioneered by jStart® (IBM Emerging Technology’s client engagement team), IBM BlueMix integrates cloud development, middleware, operations and tools into a cohesive platform for quickly building and immediately deploying applications and services to an elastic and scalable infrastructure. Take a look |  | | | Reduce software deployment time from months to minutes: IBM acquires UrbanCode UrbanCode’s award-winning application release automation (ARA) capabilities compliment IBM’s DevOps solutions, enabling IBM clients to rapidly deliver mobile, cloud, big data and traditional applications. By driving down costs, speeding time to market and reducing risk, UrbanCode software has helped clients save up to $2 million annually. Learn more about the acquisition |  | | | Implement governance that complements agile practices – read the white paper In Economic Governance of Software Delivery, IBM experts Murray Cantor and Walker Royce outline a foundation for quantified planning, decision-making, and measuring that resolves uncertainty earlier, unifies constituencies on managing a shared set of expected target outcomes, and improves the return on agile efforts. Download the paper (PDF, 676KB) |  | | | Tell us what it takes (or doesn’t) to create value from big data The IBM Institute for Business Value invites you to participate in our 2013 big data survey, which we’ll use as part of our highly anticipated big data study, set to launch in October. Share what you’re doing with big data, and what the results are. And be among the first to receive a copy of the complete study. Register and take the survey |  | | | Super savings on a super event: Register early for Information On Demand 2013 Take advantage of the NEW Information On Demand Super Saver discount: Save US$600 off the standard conference feel when you register by June 28, 2012. And Information On Demand alumni save an additional US$100 at registration! Register now and save BIG |  | | | NEW Notes Traveler for Android - now available on Google Play IBM Notes® Traveler for Android provides automatic, two-way, over-the-air syncing of IBM Notes and Domino® data – including e-mail, calendar, contacts and to-dos – on your Android phone or tablet. Download the app |  | | | Watch hours of video from IBM Exceptional Web Experience 2013, on demand IBM Exceptional Web Experience 2013 in Chicago (May 20-23) included more than 120 technical and business strategy sessions led by top professionals from IBM and the IBM Business Partner community. And we’ve put video recordings of more than 60 of these sessions in one place, for you to view at your convenience. Start watching – and start learning |  | | | What is IBM Support Assistant? Find out in less than two minutes. Watch a short video to learn how IBM Support Assistant helps you diagnose issues more quickly, organize and share log files, collaborate on problems with your team, and speed time to resolution. Watch on YouTube |  |   About this newsletter | |
| | Hot off the presses: New System z insights |  Why customers bet their business on System z Read Secure the Enterprise with Confidence Using a Mainframe Infrastructure, by Forrester Consulting.  E-book: The Business Value of DB2 for z/OS Learn how the IBM DB2® Analytics Accelerator and IBM DB2 Optimizer for z/OS® can boost your performance, reliability, and bottom line.  Analyst: Take your mainframe data mobile The Clipper Group’s report, Enabling Your Mainframe Data on Mobile Devices, covers the challenges and solutions in detail.  Making DevOps Real for System z In this IBM Systems magazine excerpt, IBM Rational Vice President Hayden Lindsey tells why DevOps is a good fit for big iron. | | |
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