IBM hopes for better take-up. IBM hopes to increase the take-up of its parallel sysplex technology by making it more user-friendly, writes Peter Branton. "We're going to make it easier to use by ...

Insurance giant Abbey National has slashed its IBM software charges by #45,000 a year since regrouping two IBM data centres into an extended-distance Sysplex configuration ? something the supplier had ...

IBM's mainframe clustering architecture. It allows multiple computers to work together as a single system. Supporting data sharing with guaranteed integrity, extensive resource sharing and ...

The hardware and software that turns an IBM mainframe Base Sysplex system into a Parallel Sysplex. It is made up of special microcode built into the machine, and the CFCC operating system (Coupling ...