51 relations: Advanced Encryption Standard, Backward compatibility, Common Criteria, Converged infrastructure, ESCON, Evaluation Assurance Level, Extended Remote Copy, Failover, FICON, Gameframe, Hercules (emulator), Hertz, Hewlett-Packard spying scandal, High availability, HiperSocket, IBM, IBM mainframe, IBM MIDAW, IBM Parallel Sysplex, IBM System z10, IBM System z9, IBM System/360, IBM System/370, IBM System/390, IBM zEnterprise System, Kernel-based Virtual Machine, Linux, Linux on z Systems, List of IBM products, Logical partition, Mainframe computer, Multi-core processor, OpenSolaris for System z, Operating system, Oracle Corporation, Peer to Peer Remote Copy, Solid-state drive, Superscalar processor, The Register, Transaction Processing Facility, Transactional memory, VCE (company), Virtual address space, VM (operating system), VSE (operating system), Z Application Assist Processor, Z/Architecture, Z/OS, Z/VM, ZIIP, ..., 64-bit computing. Expand index (1 more) »
Advanced Encryption Standard
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known by its original name Rijndael, is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001.
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Backward compatibility
Backward compatibility is a property of a system, product, or technology that allows for interoperability with an older legacy system, or with input designed for such a system, especially in telecommunications and computing.
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Common Criteria
The Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (abbreviated as Common Criteria or CC) is an international standard (ISO/IEC 15408) for computer security certification.
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Converged infrastructure
Converged infrastructure operates by grouping multiple information technology (IT) components into a single, optimized computing package.
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ESCON
ESCON (Enterprise Systems Connection) is a data connection created by IBM, and is commonly used to connect their mainframe computers to peripheral devices such as disk storage and tape drives.
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Evaluation Assurance Level
The Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL1 through EAL7) of an IT product or system is a numerical grade assigned following the completion of a Common Criteria security evaluation, an international standard in effect since 1999.
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Extended Remote Copy
Extended Remote Copy or XRC is an IBM zSeries and System z9 mainframe computer technology for data replication.
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Failover
In computing and related technologies such as networking, failover is switching to a redundant or standby computer server, system, hardware component or network upon the failure or abnormal termination of the previously active application, server, system, hardware component, or network.
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FICON
FICON (Fibre Connection) is the IBM proprietary name for the ANSI FC-SB-3 Single-Byte Command Code Sets-3 Mapping Protocol for Fibre Channel (FC) protocol.
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Gameframe
A gameframe is a hybrid computer system that was first used in the online video games industry.
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Hercules (emulator)
Hercules is a computer emulator allowing software written for IBM mainframe computers (System/370, System/390, and zSeries/System z) and for plug compatible mainframes (such as Amdahl machines) to run on other types of computer hardware, notably on low-cost personal computers.
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Hertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.
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Hewlett-Packard spying scandal
On September 5, 2006, Newsweek revealed that Hewlett-Packard's general counsel, at the behest of HP chairwoman Patricia Dunn, had contracted a team of independent security experts to investigate board members and several journalists in order to identify the source of an information leak.
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High availability
High availability is a characteristic of a system, which aims to ensure an agreed level of operational performance, usually uptime, for a higher than normal period.
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HiperSocket
HiperSockets is an IBM technology for high-speed communications between partitions on a server with a hypervisor.
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IBM
The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.
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IBM mainframe
IBM mainframes are large computer systems produced by IBM since 1952.
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IBM MIDAW
Modified Indirect Data Address Words (MIDAWs) are a channel programming capability of the IBM System z9 processor.
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IBM Parallel Sysplex
In computing, a Parallel Sysplex is a cluster of IBM mainframes acting together as a single system image with z/OS.
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IBM System z10
IBM System z10 is a line of IBM mainframes.
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IBM System z9
IBM System z9 is a line of IBM mainframe computers.
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IBM System/360
The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a family of mainframe computer systems that was announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and delivered between 1965 and 1978.
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IBM System/370
The IBM System/370 (S/370) was a model range of IBM mainframe computers announced on June 30, 1970 as the successors to the System/360 family.
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IBM System/390
The IBM System/390 was the third major generation of the System/360 line of computers.
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IBM zEnterprise System
IBM zEnterprise System is the latest line of IBM mainframes designed to offer both mainframe and distributed server technologies in an integrated system.
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Kernel-based Virtual Machine
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a virtualization infrastructure for the Linux kernel that turns it into a hypervisor.
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Linux
Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.
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Linux on z Systems
Linux on IBM Z (or Linux on z for short, and previously Linux on z Systems) is the collective term for the Linux operating system compiled to run on IBM mainframes, especially IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE servers.
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List of IBM products
The following is a partial list of products, services, and subsidiaries of International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation and its predecessor corporations, beginning in the 1890s.
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Logical partition
A logical partition, commonly called an LPAR, is a subset of a computer's hardware resources, virtualized as a separate computer.
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Mainframe computer
Mainframe computers (colloquially referred to as "big iron") are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications; bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning; and transaction processing.
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Multi-core processor
A multi-core processor is a single computing component with two or more independent processing units called cores, which read and execute program instructions.
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OpenSolaris for System z
OpenSolaris for System z is a discontinuedGavin Clarke, 29 March 2010,, The Register port of the OpenSolaris operating system to the IBM System z line of mainframe computers.
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Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.
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Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation, headquartered in Redwood Shores, California.
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Peer to Peer Remote Copy
Peer to Peer Remote Copy or PPRC is a protocol to replicate a storage volume to another control unit in a remote site.
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Solid-state drive
A solid-state drive (SSD) is a solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies as memory to store data persistently.
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Superscalar processor
A superscalar processor is a CPU that implements a form of parallelism called instruction-level parallelism within a single processor.
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The Register
The Register (nicknamed El Reg) is a British technology news and opinion website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice and Ross Alderson.
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Transaction Processing Facility
Transaction Processing Facility (TPF) is an IBM real-time operating system for mainframe computers descended from the IBM System/360 family, including zSeries and System z9.
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Transactional memory
In computer science and engineering, transactional memory attempts to simplify concurrent programming by allowing a group of load and store instructions to execute in an atomic way.
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VCE (company)
VCE (abbreviation for "Virtual Computing Environment") was a division of EMC Corporation that manufactured converged infrastructure appliances for enterprise environments.
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Virtual address space
In computing, a virtual address space (VAS) or address space is the set of ranges of virtual addresses that an operating system makes available to a process.
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VM (operating system)
VM (often: VM/CMS) is a family of IBM virtual machine operating systems used on IBM mainframes System/370, System/390, zSeries, System z and compatible systems, including the Hercules emulator for personal computers.
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VSE (operating system)
z/VSE (Virtual Storage Extended) is an operating system for IBM mainframe computers, the latest one in the DOS/360 lineage, which originated in 1965.
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Z Application Assist Processor
The IBM System z Application Assist Processor (zAAP), previously known as the zSeries Application Assist Processor, is a mainframe processor introduced by IBM in 2004.
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Z/Architecture
z/Architecture, initially and briefly called ESA Modal Extensions (ESAME), is IBM's 64-bit instruction set architecture implemented by its mainframe computers.
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Z/OS
z/OS is a 64-bit operating system for IBM mainframes, produced by IBM.
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Z/VM
z/VM is the current version in IBM's VM family of virtual machine operating systems.
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ZIIP
In IBM System z9 (and successor) mainframes, the System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) is a special purpose processor.
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64-bit computing
In computer architecture, 64-bit computing is the use of processors that have datapath widths, integer size, and memory address widths of 64 bits (eight octets).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Z