Excessive M&A Impacts Quality of Service

2024-02-11T10:33:48-06:00

Excessive M&A Impacts Quality of Service By Brian Kjera, Top Gun While we’ve personally witnessed and have Service Quality horror stories told to us by new clients, there appears to be great merit in concern for TPM (Third Party Maintenance) providers choosing strategic growth by acquisition over organic growth by reputation, for high-quality standards and essential investments in technology and engineering expertise. This blog will explain why Service Quality [...]

Excessive M&A Impacts Quality of Service2024-02-11T10:33:48-06:00

State of Mainframe 2019

2020-02-16T18:28:33-06:00

Results from the Syncsort's State of the Mainframe in 2019 survey showed that IT professionals plan to focus on "mainframe optimization, cost reduction and spending" by "optimizing general processor CPU usage and leveraging zIIP engines to save money and improve performance". Mainframe organizations can further reduce costs on mainframes by talking to Top Gun. Top Gun can supply IBM certified 2964/z13 and 2965/z13s mainframes, with or without added hardware [...]

State of Mainframe 20192020-02-16T18:28:33-06:00

Discounted zSystems Mainframes for ISVs

2020-02-16T18:24:19-06:00

Top Gun offers affordable refurbished N-1 IBM zSystems mainframes for IBM Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). ISVs that apply for IBM’s Z Developer Discount offering can pair the program with one or more refurbished N-1 IBM zSystems mainframes. ISVs do not have to buy new zSystems hardware to apply for this program. Top Gun offers competitive pricing, and we are prepared to meet your data center’s needs with our extensive [...]

Discounted zSystems Mainframes for ISVs2020-02-16T18:24:19-06:00

FICON Express16S for z13 Mainframes

2019-12-19T16:22:16-06:00

IBM z13 supports the new FICON Express16S channel for improved I/O rates and bandwidth. Top Gun has these features available for 2964 z13 and 2965 z13s Mainframes. 0418 FICON Express16S LX 2 port 0419 FICON Express16S SX 2 port We have other features available for z13s including: 0890 Crypto5S 0413 OSA-Express 5S Gigiabit Ethernet LX 0414 OSA-Express 5S Gigiabit Ethernet SX 0415 OSA-Express 5S 10 Gigiabit Ethernet LR 0416 [...]

FICON Express16S for z13 Mainframes2019-12-19T16:22:16-06:00

Mainframes, Servers, Storage and SAN Connectivity

2019-12-19T16:18:55-06:00

Mainframes: Top Gun has z13s and upgrades, all guaranteed eligible for IBM maintenance, please ask to talk to us about your fall projects to ensure you are getting the best deal. EC12/2827, BC12/2828, z196/2817, z114/2818 mainframes, and upgrades are also in stock. Servers: Top Gun has Power Systems (Power7, Power8 & legacy pSeries and iSeries) Blade Center, xSeries hardware as well as Sun and HP servers-complete servers, upgrades, and parts. Storage: Inventory includes IBM tape libraries (TS3500), Enterprise [...]

Mainframes, Servers, Storage and SAN Connectivity2019-12-19T16:18:55-06:00

Top Gun & z13 Mainframes

2019-12-19T16:19:37-06:00

Tom Marchant’s article Fighting the Media’s Mainframe Misconception: Proving the z13 is Modern says that mainframes "are simpler to administer, use less power, require less floor space and cooling, and have a lower total cost of ownership" compared to other systems. Top Gun has refurbished z13 mainframes, allowing for even lower TCO. If you need to add features to your existing z13, we have many including: 0890 Crypto5S 0418 FICON [...]

Top Gun & z13 Mainframes2019-12-19T16:19:37-06:00

Mainframes – “Mission Essential for Enterprises”, Ashok Reddy 

2019-12-19T16:23:47-06:00

Reddy notes that mainframes are a source of revenue growth and innovation and have become an important part of intelligent automation.  He explains their speed, security, HA and new capabilities are why the mainframe is mission essential for enterprises. So if mainframes will be at the center of the next digital business innovation according to Reddy, why overspend? Top Gun has lower cost IBM branded/certified EC12, BC12s, z196, z114 and feature upgrades available. Planning [...]

Mainframes – “Mission Essential for Enterprises”, Ashok Reddy 2019-12-19T16:23:47-06:00

Keep Hackers From Having Another Banner Year

2019-12-19T16:22:45-06:00

Bryan Smith¹s article, "How Mainframes Prevent Data Breaches,  gives an interesting perspective on how using mainframes to process and protect data can keep hackers from having another banner year. Smith says protecting a single mainframe is easier than protecting data distributed to all corners of a company firewall.  The mainframe can act as a 'vault' whereas multiple systems can mean multiple possible 'breach points'.  Mainframes can allow organizations to simplify their data centers, [...]

Keep Hackers From Having Another Banner Year2019-12-19T16:22:45-06:00