February 2013 January 2013 Big Iron and the Cloud Mainframes have reliably served the heavy computing and security needs of large and medium-sized enterprises for decades. More... recently, cloud computing has emerged promising scale, availability, simplicity, and lowered costs. But will it deliver? Similarities and differences exist between mainframe and cloud... computing, as well as various use cases for each. Companies will continue to have increasing needs for computing power, so the question many organizations face is: where...

2013 January 2013 3 Reasons Why Mainframes Still Matter With Cloud computing a hot topic, do mainframes still matter to Enterprise IT departments? You bet. If you ask the average... person on the street about mainframe computing, you know what youre generally going to get: Either a blank stare, or a description of a room-filling behemoth from fifty years ago. In...

2013 February 2013 January 2013 3 Reasons Why Mainframes Still Matter With Cloud computing a hot topic, do mainframes still matter to Enterprise IT departments? You bet. If you ask... the average person on the street about mainframe computing, you know what youre generally going to get: Either a blank stare, or a description of a room-filling behemoth from... fifty years ago. In fact, with the rise over the past decade of distributed computing and the recent surge in popularity of Cloud computing as a hot topic, its perhaps easy...

be accomplished through computing. They are both large and powerful machines, but they are not the same thing. Because of their similarities (big black boxes hidden [...] Posted... served the heavy computing and security needs of large and medium-sized enterprises for decades. More recently, cloud computing has emerged promising scale, availability, simplicity..., and lowered costs. But will it deliver? Similarities and differences exist between mainframe and cloud computing, as well as various use cases for each. Companies will continue...

for the encryption of data besides emails. Virtually no computers that are connected to a network are safe from outside attack. Most peoples data is stored and transferred in plain text...