Category Archives: TechTarget

New Orleans Law Firm Braces for Storms With New DR Plan

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With the hindsight of its being trounced by hurricane Katrina — and foresight of weather experts who predict a consecutive stormy summer season this year for the Gulf Coast — a New Orleans law firm has since spent over $100,000 to purchase new hardware, implement high availability (HA) [...]

Dow Jones Drops Sun for IBM pSeries

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Dow Jones Indexes has switched to IBM pSeries from Sun Microsystems Inc. servers to calculate its global market indexes and averages — the core port of which IBM performed for free in exchange for commitment to its platform.

Publisher Aims to Save a Million Moving Off Mainframe

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Simon & Schuster Inc. plans to save $1 million a year on hardware costs and licensing fees as a result of migrating off its old IBM mainframes.