Put the readings in a secure database--on, say, a mainframe owned by the credit card issuer.
Net 1 operates a mainframe computer, loaded with customer information and tied into every transaction.
Instead, Oracle favours three tiers, with a huge database server (possibly a mainframe) at the centre.
Companies whose core is running on a mainframe may have difficulty providing mobile access to users, he said.
It's a tedious job--reading information off scanned-in images of forms then punching it into a database running on a mainframe computer.
IBM's first successful corporate computer was a mainframe called, coincidentally, the 360.
When mainframe computers arrived and television was what kids liked, the mind was like a mainframe and television was the engine of our idiocy.
"What got me interested at the time the original came out was that I had just begun working as a mainframe systems programmer, " Maynard said.
No longer was it necessary to have a mainframe to do computing: so all the incentives to buy IBM and forget about it fell away.
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The core processing systems of insurance companies, airlines and banks, for instance, are built on a mainframe-computer technology that celebrated its 40th anniversary this year.
Analysis by Dr Roberts showed that only one fifteenth of the capacity of a telephone line used to remotely connect to a mainframe was used.
Having been designed from the start for use on a personal computer rather than a powerful workstation or even a mainframe, Tsunami and Typhoon use memory extremely efficiently.
Dr. Davis has offered to provide at no cost to the government the conversion of 100, 000 lines of software code on a mainframe computer to demonstrate his program's abilities.
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Unlike past models, the new system functions as a hybrid, with a mainframe housed on one side of a cabinet that is twice the size of a refrigerator and space for server blades on the other.
For those of us who have actually worked on a mainframe, the scenario above (with all of its implied colorful language) is probably familiar staring at the blinky green cursor and wondering what, if anything, was happening.
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Sam Palmisano, who has run IBM like a smoothly humming mainframe for a decade, has turned over the reins.
Typically every time we look at a complete mainframe portfolio, about 30% of code is never used, and will never be executed.
The company's operating margins have been increasing thanks to its widening proportion of software and services, he points out, along with a growing mainframe business and decreased spending on employee pensions.
The weapon of choice was a ponderously huge mainframe.
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That dream had grown from small beginnings: from him, a student at the University of Illinois in Urbana, hanging round a huge old mainframe computer on the night of the Fourth of July in 1971, with the sound of fireworks still in his ears.
An innovative proposal has been offered by Dr. Morris Davis, the inventor of a program known as Transition Software that has demonstrated impressive capabilities to accomplish such corrective action on mainframe computers in a fraction of the time -- and at far less cost -- than is currently associated with human review of each line of code.
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Rather than stick with a dying business, they moved into mainframe data storage in 1989, devising a technology far faster than what IBM was then using to control 80% of the market.
Mobil hired IBM to do the data processing, shutting off Microsoft databases in favor of Oracle database software running on a shared IBM Z900 mainframe.
Then Jonathan laid off salespeople at StorageTek, a Sun subsidiary that sells mainframe storage to the enterprise.
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Among the missed opportunities: IBM is still waiting on a number of software and mainframe transactions to close.
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Online banking accounts, for example, hold the last 30 to 90 days on a cache facility off the mainframe.
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Your smartphone now harnesses the processing power of a multi-million dollar mainframe computer that not so long ago filled an environmentally-controlled room.
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The days when IBM's mainframe computers held a monopoly on enterprise computing may have ended with the influx of cheaper x86 and Unix servers.
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