Today July 17th 2017 IBM announced the new mainframe called IBM z14. Planned availability date is September 13, 2017.
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| IBM z14 glass model |
From a Linux perspective the IBM tested platforms has been updated to include z14. The following minimum … Read the rest
Last week I’be been at SHARE in San Antonio. There was a good turnout and lots of good discussions. Here is the complete agenda. I’ve already blogged about the best session. Here are a few more:
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Today at SHARE I had the remarkable experience to listen to a session Connor Krukosky. He’s a 18 year old student that bought a z890 on eBay. Here is his story. The first operating system he got running was Linux. … Read the rest
One of the really nice things about Linux on z is the fact that the underlying hardware has a long life. This means that for complex software solutions that need extensive and expensive testing you can keep the system going … Read the rest
