When people think of groundbreaking medical advances, they think of Boston, New York, maybe Los Angeles or Houston, but not Orlando. Florida Hospital, a major faith-based, full-service, academic and teaching healthcare system headquartered in Orlando, however, might change that.

With so many different kinds of mobile devices, applications and users, many companies try to minimize abuse by writing a policy statement providing rules and guidelines. This document is usually three to five pages, starting with a statement of purpose and indicating who the policy applies to. This might be worded as follows:

Forward-thinking IT execs are eager to tap the dynamic potential of cloud architectures to cut costs by increasing automation and improving service delivery. Those same executives are pondering whether the mainframe has a role in their cloud strategy.

In the spring, you may notice a recurring phenomenon in your neighborhood: One by one, your neighbors begin to perform the annual ritual of cleaning out the garage. It’s time to get rid of those old golf clubs and tackle the mounds of camping gear that have mysteriously spread to all corners of the garage. Sound familiar?

Last year, we introduced smarter computing as the key to improving efficiency, saving money, and doing more with less. But IBM does more than just advocate; we embarked on our smarter computing journey four years ago, saving millions while implementing and improving our offerings.

If anyone who works outside the IT department suggests moving to the cloud, they may actually be criticizing IT. One reason behind this may be IT’s time to market, or how long it takes to get a new application up and running. Here’s information you want at your fingertips to manage this issue.

A recent IBM survey of global Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) indicates they view environmental issues as the least important challenge facing today’s medium and large enterprises—and, for the most part, CEOs agree with them. So why should an IT organization place end-to-end energy management, with the mainframe as the hub, at or near the top of its strategic initiatives?

IBM is delivering on its promise to support Microsoft Windows Server on its zEnterprise 196 (z196) and 114 (z114) mainframes. That’s welcome news for enterprises with significant investments in IBM’s mainframes and Windows. There have always been many ways to integrate mainframes and Windows, but none that would let us connect the two as closely, albeit not necessarily seamlessly, as we will discuss.

My team of solution architects frequently design and implement z/OS disk migrations as part of storage upgrades or new implementations. After performing many migrations at small to very large installations, we’ve learned the many trials and tribulations of disk migrations along with ways to deal with the different challenges that always seem to occur.

The amount of information gathered continues to snowball as we put data collector technology in many new areas. Business analytics addresses what to do with all that data, but as the amount of information increases, the time to process it to gain actionable insights also increases. The longer it takes to process information to identify actionable insights, the greater the chance of missed opportunities for decreasing costs or increasing revenues.