Legacy computing can weather recession
Gartner Worldwide predicts a stop in IT spending of 8 percent this year to $3.4 trillion. This year’s trigger, of […]
SPARCstation 10 pushed Solaris onto desktops
Twenty-eight years ago this month, the first SPARC-based desktop computers were delivering multiprocessing for Solaris and SunOS. The month of […]
Solaris recovery tip on ROM leads to OpenBoot magic
Legacy era hardware can have hard problems. Batteries die in older systems, and sometimes those components just can’t be replaced. […]
Keeping Solaris updated gives desktops more web access
It’s often good advice not to take the update. What is not broken does not need a fix, according to […]
Oracle rolls out new SRU for Solaris
A new SRU 20 is available for download for Oracle Solaris 11.4. The April 2020 release is available via ‘pkg […]
Why Solaris Becomes Essential to Legacies
MPE and OpenVMS have easy answers about why they still perform in 2020. The operating systems drive essential business computing. […]
Legacy targets keep offering opportunities
Where is the greatest potential for legacy growth? Rising numbers of users of OpenVMS or Solaris are unlikely to appear. […]
SSD disk failures demand firmware updates
HP Enterprise disk drives are facing a failure date of October 2020, unless administrators apply a crucial firmware patch. A […]
Legacy server work qualifies as essential
The worldwide health crisis is making legacy computing an essential operation. Companies using legacy server environments already know this. Now […]
Legacy computing can protect from uncertain futures
The world has changed forever as we grapple with the impact of COVID-19. Businesses and services are revamping their plans […]