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by Mark Brunelli, Site Editor
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** How will my company deal with a growing skills crunch as younger IT staffers replace newly retired mainframers?
** In this sluggish economy, which new technologies are worth an investment?
** How will the enterprise cost-effectively manage the increasing need for middleware and storage?
These are just a few of the tough questions facing data center managers these days.
Sometimes it must seem like too much to handle. But you're a fighter, an innovator. You'll find a way to stay on top of these pressing issues. Our Data Center Futures newsletter can help.
Data Center Futures is sent to subscribers' inboxes twice a month. Each installment focuses on a trend or technology that's helping to shape the data center of tomorrow. Recent issues included articles on outsourcing staff and the role of blade servers in the data center. Upcoming newsletters will feature an examination of server virtualization and a two-part article on autonomic computing.
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Data Center Futures
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Featured Expert Rick Nashleanas, Principal, Monarch Technology Management
Category: Careers
Worried about the future? Want to find out what types of skills IT managers demand? You've come to the right place. Our career expert, Rick Nashleanas, is available everyday to answer your questions about hiring and advancement trends in the mainframe world. Be sure to check out Rick's answers to previous questions as well.
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This Week: In the forums
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Moving CA-1 controlled tapes from range1 to range2
Ulrich47 writes: "I want to move the contents of CA-1 controlled tapes from range1 to range2. The data sets on these tapes are not catalogued. The cause is a physical reorganization of our tape racks. One set of racks must be removed and I have no space in the other ones. How can I solve this problem?"
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Distributed vs. centralized data centers
Some of you have been sharing your thoughts on the ongoing debate over centralized versus distributed IT. Some say it's quicker and easier to access data from departmental servers than from a mainframe. Others say the security and stability of a centralized mainframe environment is still the best way to go. What are your thoughts on this debate?
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WebSphere Strategies: Bypass old WAS passwords
Those who've done any work with form-based logins under WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 4.0.x may have encountered a somewhat vexing problem when users have attempted to log in to WAS after changing their passwords: Both their old and their new passwords are successfully authenticated! |
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