products & innovations
LzLabs partners with COBOL-IT
to enable seamless mainframe
application migration
LzLabs has announced that it is collaborating with
COBOL-IT to deliver the world’s first Software
Defined Mainframe – a technology solution which
enables customers to migrate their legacy mainframe
applications and data seamlessly to open Linux
server and Cloud platforms. COBOL-IT will act as an
integrated software provider for the solution as it is
implemented for LzLabs’ customers across the world.
The LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe
is designed to support major legacy operating
environments and languages so that customers
can escape the high recurring cost of mainframe
software and hardware. This new environment works
without forcing recompilations of COBOL or PL/1
application programs or making complex changes to
the enterprise business environment.
As part of the Software Defined Mainframe,
LzLabs will incorporate a customised version of
COBOL-IT’s Compiler software, which enables
companies to migrate, deploy and maintain their
legacy COBOL applications on all forms of open
software, including Windows, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX,
Linux and zLinux, at the lowest possible cost and risk.
For further information visit www.lzlabs.com
SCALE COMPUTING RADICALLY CHANGES PRICEPERFORMANCE IN THE DATA CENTRE WITH
FULLY AUTOMATED FLASH TIERING
Scale Computing has announced the integration of flash-enabled automated
storage tiering into its award-winning HC3 platform.
This update to Scale’s converged HC3 system adds hybrid storage including
SSD and spinning disk with HyperCore Enhanced Automated Tiering (HEAT).
Scale’s HEAT technology uses a combination of built-in intelligence, data
access patterns, and workload priority to automatically optimise data across
disparate storage tiers within the cluster.
Scale Computing’s HC3 platform brings storage, servers, virtualisation,
and high availability together in a single, comprehensive system. With no
virtualisation software to license and no external storage to buy, HC3 solutions
lower out-of-pocket costs and radically simplify the infrastructure needed to
keep applications optimised and running.
This update to the HC3 HyperCore storage architecture combines Scale’s
HEAT technology with SSD-hybrid nodes that add a new tier of flash storage to
new or existing HC3 clusters. HEAT technology combines intelligent automation
with simple, granular tuning parameters to further define flash storage utilisation
on a per virtual disk basis for optimal performance.
For further information visit www.scalecomputing.com