Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Elasticity in the Mainframe Environment

By Brenda J. Christie

This week's Enterprise Systems Media feature article centered around the concept of "elasticity," a nice buzzword that really means flexibility.  Or in project management speak, it is called "resource balancing."  However, the article, "IT Sense: Elastic Storage" talks about the difficulty of assessing the availability of a resource due to a lack of standardization within the environment itself.