Risk Free With Shadow

by Gregg Willhoit on January 18, 2010

in Mainframe

In this podcast, Gregg Willhoit explains how Progress DataDirect customers take advantage of moving workloads beyond DB2 to the zIIP specialty engine, and do so risk free and worry free using DataDirect Shadow.
Gregg’s podcast runs for 5:22:

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In this guest post Trevor Eddolls, CEO of iTech-Ed Ltd, shares his thoughts on why it is important to modernize mainframe applications.

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In this podcast, Gregg reflects on his presentation ‘Keeping it Legal, Techniques for Maximizing TCO with the zIIP’ at the CMG Technical Conference in Dallas. Gregg shares that the CMG audience supported IBM’s position and approved zIIP offload. Gregg continues that the participating audience hoped for additional transparency regarding who is offloading to the zIIP [...]

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In this podcast Gregg Willhoit helps listeners understand IBM’s intent with its IFL, zAAP and zIIP Specialty Engines.

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In this podcast Gregg Willhoit offers his take on IBM’s recent release of z/OS. This podcast last for 1:07.

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In this podcast Rob Steward shares why Progress Software is a great place to work, and he provides insights into corporate culture. This podcast lasts for 3:24.

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Today’s guest podcast features Trevor Eddolls, Author and CEO of iTech-Ed Ltd, a company he founded back in 2004. The company specializes in consultancy and analysis, writing and editing, webinars and training, and website design and development. Trevor has worked with Mainframe since 1979 and has recently become an IBM Information Champion. He is also [...]

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I’m excited to have the opportunity to speak at the Computer Measurement Group (CMG) conference in Dallas (Dec. 6 – 11). I’ll be focusing on a topic we address here on Data Connections: the current marketplace confusion regarding the exploitation of IBM specialty engines by independent software vendors.
I have two sessions. In both my exhibitor [...]

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In this podcast guest blogger Trevor Eddolls shares a great resource for mainframers, the Virtual IMS Connection User Group. It should be noted that DataDirect’s Gregg Willhoit will be speaking on the topic of bringing zIIP offload to the IMS platform.

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The Progress DataDirect Shadow team has recently released the latest update of its Shadow product, 7.2.1. In this podcast Trevor Eddolls provides his take on the new mainframe middleware product.
The podcast lasts for 3:27 and you may listen to the podcast here: http://blogs.datadirect.com/media/TrevorEddolls_Shadow7.2.1.mp3

Trevor Eddolls:
Well, I mean, my first thoughts were that it’s a good [...]

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