Why mainframe application performance is important?

Hello friends,

IBM mainframes dominate the mainframe market at well over 90% market share.
& as we know most of the banking systems uses the mainframe technology as front end as well as back end. Now a days some of them are using GUI at the front end designed by using .net, java, php or any other system, but at the back end definatly they are using mainframe because for them maintaining the customer information & there financial record is a major challenge. As mainframe can do it very nicely with high performance, they prefer for IBM mainframe.

   Form the above para u people come to know that how important mainframe is. In such a case it is also important to maintain the performance of mainframe application. 

    Form one of the survey, i observed following things- 

• 81 percent of global respondents say mainframe is already strategic or highly strategic to current and future IT plans
• 58 percent says mainframe is already or will be critical to cloud strategy
• 46 percent will spend more on mainframe software and 44 percent will spend more on services
• 44 percent already have or will be enabling mobile management of mainframe
• 54 percent want IT staff with cross-functional expertise.

        That’s why I was a little surprised to see one of our competitors announcing that mainframe application performance suddenly matters. Hasn’t it always?
        I came to IBM 10 months ago and, admittedly, was one of those people that didn’t think much about how “old” mainframe systems impact my use of modern applications. But most end-to-end systems from today’s large enterprises touch the mainframe in some way, that’s why it’s important to be able to measure transaction performance all the way from a web-front end through the back end mainframe.
     So what do u think about mainframe technology? is it really use in spite of being older one ?

IBM introduces new powerful mainframe computer

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As u know mainframe god is IBM, who have invented mainframe computer, continuous there invention in the same field & now they have introduced new powerful mainframe computer. 
              IBM said its zEnterprise EC12 mainframe server is designed to help clients securely and quickly sift through massive amounts of data, meeting the demands of retail and other clients in the age of "Big Data." Running at 5.5 GHz, IBM said the microprocessor that powers the mainframe is the fastest chip in the world. Processing speed is 25 percent faster than the previous model.
Mainframes are used by corporate clients ranging from banks to chain stores. IBM says the new model could be used by retailers to manage online transactions and analyze clients' buying habits and then use the information to create a "more customized shopping experience," such as a custom coupon issued during a transaction.
          "Whether its retail or whether its transportation, making reservations, whatever it is, the system has been built really to help clients do those new types of new-age transactions," said Doug Brown, an IBM vice president of marketing.
         IBM says more than $1 billion was spent on research and development for the system at 18 sites worldwide, with most of it in Poughkeepsie, about 40 miles north of its headquarters in Armonk in Westchester County.
         The new mainframe is being promoted as one of the most secure systems ever with a tamper-resistant cryptographic co-processor to provide privacy for sensitive transactions.
           IBM has been focusing on its software and services divisions, which are more profitable than selling the mainframe computers that made the company famous decades ago. But the sales of those mainframes help feed demand for IBM services.

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Good books for Robotics

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What u feel about robotics?

Very nice field for career, My favorite subject & field was robotics, very much interesting
Here i have some of the good books for robotics, if u r really interested, please check the books.
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1. 8051 microcontroller by K J Ayala

2. Robots, Androids, and Animatrons by John Iovine

3. PIC Robotics  by john Iovine

4.MY  EXPERIENCE IN AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS      by BIBIN JOHN

5. MY EXPERIENCE IN PROGRAMMING AVR MICROCONTROLLER

6. Beginners Introduction to the Assembly Language of ATMEL­AVR­Microprocessors    by Gerhard Schmid

7. Application note for stepper motor

8. Application note for DC motor control

9. Robot Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Illustrated      by Paul E. Sandin

10. Process Modelling, Identification,and Control

11.  Robotics-Ben_Sandler

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Feature computing technologies

Hi friends. . 

       Now a days there is full environment of cloud computing, but here is something that u can find very interesting. u can read the following para to get to know what are all the new feature computing technologies, go through it.                   

         From the initial days of number-crunching by languages of FORTRAN, to the procedural methodology of Pascal or C, and later, the object-oriented paradigm of C++ and Java, we have come a long way. In this age of information overload, technologies that can just solve problems through steps and procedures are no longer adequate.

                     We need technology to detect complex patterns, trends, understand nuances in human language and to automatically solve problems. In this new era, the following three technologies are furthering the frontiers of computing technology:

Predictive analytics

By 2016, 130 exabytes will rip through the Internet. The number of mobile devices will exceed the human population this year, and by 2016, the number of connected devices will touch 10 billion.

Devices connected to the Net will range from cellphones, laptops, tablets, sensors and the millions of devices based on the ‘Internet of things’. A hot and happening trend in computing is the ability to make business and strategic decisions by determining patterns, trends and outliers among mountains of data. Predictive analytics will be a key discipline in our future and its experts will be much sought after.

Predictive analytics uses statistical methods to mine intelligence, information and patterns in structured, unstructured and streams of data. Predictive analytics will be applied across many domains, including banking, insurance, retail, telecom and energy.

There are also applications for energy grids and water management, besides those that determine user sentiment by mining data from social networks.

Cognitive computing

                   The most famous technological product in the domain of cognitive computing is IBM’s supercomputer, Watson, an artificial intelligence computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language.

             Watson is best known for successfully trouncing a national champion in the popular U.S. TV quiz competition, Jeopardy. What made this victory more astonishing was that the supercomputer was able to decipher the nuances of natural language and pick the correct answer.

                   Following the success at Jeopardy, Watson has now been employed by a leading medical insurance firm in the U.S. to diagnose medical illnesses and recommend treatment options for patients. Watson will be able to analyse 1 million books, or roughly 200 million pages of information. Another well-known example of cognitive computing is Siri, the voice recognition app on the iPhone. The earlier avatar of cognitive computing was expert systems based on artificial intelligence. These expert systems were inference engines that were based on knowledge rules.

       The most famous among the expert systems were ‘Dendral’ and ‘Mycin’.

Autonomic computing

                  This is another computing trend that is set to become prevalent in the networks of tomorrow. Autonomic computing refers to the self-managing characteristics of a network. Typically, it signifies the ability of a network to self-heal in the event of failures or faults.

                   Autonomic network can quickly localise and isolate faults in the network while keeping other parts of the network unaffected. Besides, these networks can quickly correct and ‘heal’ the faulty hardware without human intervention. Autonomic networks are typical in smart grids where a fault can be quickly isolated and the network healed without resulting in a major outage in the electrical grid.

            These are truly exciting times in computing as we move towards true intelligence. 

Source: www.thehindu.com, www.ibm.com