KOREAN INSURER RETIRES 7,000 MIPS MAINFRAMES

2006-09-06 Thread Kopischke, David G.
Greetings, Another interesting story today on SearchDataCenter. This is the biggest one I've read about so far. Thanks, Dave K. === KOREAN INSURER RETIRES 7,000 MIPS MAINFRAMES | Matt Stansberry,

Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

2008-08-27 Thread Mark Zelden
"Korean insurer Samsung Life Insurance shut down its IBM zSeries mainframes, shifting a 7,000 MIPS workload, including loan, contract and payment systems to two HP Itanium 2-based Superdomes running HP-UX." http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1214459,00.html -- M

Re: KOREAN INSURER RETIRES 7,000 MIPS MAINFRAMES

2006-09-07 Thread Clark F Morris
On 6 Sep 2006 14:02:35 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > >Kopischke, David G. wrote: >> Greetings, >>Another interesting story today on SearchDataCenter. This is the >> biggest >> one I've read about so far. > > >Now comes the wait for the first hacker to break in and steal countles

Re: KOREAN INSURER RETIRES 7,000 MIPS MAINFRAMES

2006-09-07 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clark F Morris > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 8:31 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: KOREAN INSURER RETIRES 7,000 MIPS MAINFRAMES > >

Re: KOREAN INSURER RETIRES 7,000 MIPS MAINFRAMES

2006-09-07 Thread Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 9:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: KOREAN INSURER RETIRES 7,000 MIPS MAINFRAMES Now, having said that, it might be possible to create a

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

2008-08-27 Thread Denis Gäbler
I think this has been posted before...and is pretty old. By Matt Stansberry, Site Editor 06 Sep 2006 | SearchDataCenter.com Denis. -Original Message- From: Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 3:12 pm Subject: Korean insurer r

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

2008-08-27 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 08:12 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > "Korean insurer Samsung Life Insurance shut down its IBM zSeries > mainframes, shifting a 7,000 MIPS workload, including loan, > contract and payment systems to two HP Itanium 2-based Superdomes > running HP-UX." Deja vu again ???. Didn't we

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

2008-08-27 Thread Steve Comstock
Mark Zelden wrote: "Korean insurer Samsung Life Insurance shut down its IBM zSeries mainframes, shifting a 7,000 MIPS workload, including loan, contract and payment systems to two HP Itanium 2-based Superdomes running HP-UX." http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

2008-08-27 Thread Doug Fuerst
Sounds like they weren't writing too many policies.. Doug Shane wrote: On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 08:12 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: "Korean insurer Samsung Life Insurance shut down its IBM zSeries mainframes, shifting a 7,000 MIPS workload, including loan, contract and payment systems to two H

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

2008-08-27 Thread Joe Aulph
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Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

2008-08-27 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:23:20 +1000, Shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Didn't we already go over this a while back ???. Sorry. I supposed we did and I missed it or don't remember. I didn't realize the date was almost 2 years ago. Can I use "I hadn't had my coffee yet" as an excuse? (same excus

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

2008-08-27 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Mark Zelden wrote: >"Korean insurer Samsung Life Insurance shut down its IBM zSeries mainframes, shifting a 7,000 MIPS workload, ... snipped ... Eric N. Bielefeld already informed IBM-MAIN on Wed, 6 Sep 2006 about this insurer, same day when SearchDataCenter published that. Groete / Greeting

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

2008-08-27 Thread Brian Fitzgibbon
Mark, No problem - I do things like this myself - even when I have had my coffee .. :-) It was interesting though - they have bolster the ability to dynamically add servers and remove them as needed. We used to "provide" the same under VM , back in my VM Software days. Brian Fitzgibbon S

Re: Korean insurer retires 7,000 MIPS mainframes

2008-08-27 Thread Rick Fochtman
"Korean insurer Samsung Life Insurance shut down its IBM zSeries mainframes, shifting a 7,000 MIPS workload, including loan, contract and payment systems to two HP Itanium 2-based Superdomes running HP-UX." http://searchdatacenter.te

Re: KOREAN INSURER RETIRES 7,000 MIPS MAINFRAMES (UNCLASSIFIED)

2006-09-07 Thread Clark, Kevin D, HRC-Alexandria/EDS
List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kopischke, David G. Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: KOREAN INSURER RETIRES 7,000 MIPS MAINFRAMES Greetings, Another interesting story today on SearchDataCenter. This is the biggest one I've read abo

Re: KOREAN INSURER RETIRES 7,000 MIPS MAINFRAMES (UNCLASSIFIED)

2006-09-07 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
2006 4:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: KOREAN INSURER RETIRES 7,000 MIPS MAINFRAMES Greetings, Another interesting story today on SearchDataCenter. This is the biggest one I've read about so far.

Re: KOREAN INSURER RETIRES 7,000 MIPS MAINFRAMES (UNCLASSIFIED)

2006-09-08 Thread Jim McAlpine
The original article said they were IBM zSeries mainframes. Also, the software that tmsxsoft supplied to achieve this is called Openframe and TJES which emulate mainframe CICS and JCL. Seems pretty clear to me that another IBM mainframe site has bitten the dust. Jim McAlpine On 9/8/06, John S