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For a half century, Moore's Law has simplified the CIO's life. Were you pushing the limits of your batch cycle window because of insufficient computing cycles? Upgrade your hardware and everything will run faster. (I know there are plenty of other issues that may affect performance, but let's...
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By John Pickett We hear from data center managers about their growing concerns about energy in the data center. According to US Environmental Protection Agency, data center energy consumption has doubled from 2000 to 2006, and expected to double again by 2010 . Some may think the only option for increasing...
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Legacy Transformation - the cost of doing nothing
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11-04-2009
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Filed under: transformation, legacy, modernization, mainframe, MFA, hp, modernisation, mainframe alternative, apps, application, john pickett, z10, energy, energy savings
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Hi. My name is Steve Woods and I work in HP Enterprise Services Application Modernization. I’ll be posting on topics that involve how we use some fairly innovative approaches to legacy transformation. In particular, I’ll discuss our Visual Intelligence Tools. Let me begin by covering the...
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I should have posted this earlier but here's the details for a useful event if you have an interest in Apps Transformation & Modernization. We have a star-studded line-up of speakers, some of whom will be available for chat during the event. You can here from Geoffrey Moore, Crossing the Chasm...
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Legacy Transformation - the cost of doing nothing
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pevans@hp.com
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11-02-2009
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Filed under: transformation, legacy, visualization, modernization, mainframe, MFA, source code, steve woods, cobol, asymmetrical, inferential statistics, decompostion, hp, modernisation, mainframe alternative, apps, paul evans, visualization tools, application, john pickett, lower costs
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At the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting, neuroscientists are interested in the tricks magicians use to fool us ( http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/48544/title/Magic_for_neuroscientists ). It seems that magicians are keenly aware of issues we humans have. How we perceive is a very...
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In his book, How to Measure Anything , Douglas W. Hubbard laments the reluctance of IT organizations to use inferential statistics for measurement. Hubbard poses the question of how to measure the number of fish in a lake. Many IT decision makers might respond just to drain the lake, kill the fish, then...
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Eschewing Symmetry: The Joy of Asymmetrical Thinking Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry I hear it often from our transformation customers. We have X million lines of legacy code and we want to transform it to a modern architecture. We’ve spoken with several vendors who have transformation...
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Welcome from Oracle OpenWorld 2009! This is your Applications Modernization booth monkey, reporting in. I got to hear Ann Livermore's keynote on Monday, which had a heavy modernization component. She talked about applications modernization as a key mechanism to address core business issues, including...
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I know I'm probably the millionth person to use that line in the context of data center modernization. But who doesn’t love Kermit? A copy of Newsweek showed up this week with a cover story providing an environmental ranking of America's 500 largest corporations. Much to my pleasure, HP...
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Modernization can be approached on an application by application basis and it frequently is. This is sub-optimal, but understandable. Individual applications frequently betray their inadequacies in a direct fashion - users complain, maintenance issues are visible, and costs are more easily associated...
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I just read the article “ Mainframe cheerleaders caution big iron defectors against x86 ”, where an analyst is quoted as saying: " PCs are not mainframes ...". Let’s stop there - because thinking that PCs are synonymous with x86 servers shows an immature understanding of the...
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The older a legacy application is the more likely that at the time it was built developers needed to write their own solutions in ways that we would find inconceivable today. More years ago than I would like to admit, I wrote an application for a professor in the University of Texas business school that...
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As member of this application transformation blog, I’ll be sharing my views of the infrastructure component aspect of the equation, specifically as it pertains to mainframe transformation. The 1970s & 80s, ushered in the growth era for mainframe. During this time, the mainframe developed a...