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illustro -- Latin for "enlightened" or
"to illuminate", represents a new breed of ideas and energies to
advance the technology and innovations for the mainframe community.
Why the mainframe?
With the
heritage of over 40 years of success sustaining the IT
infrastructure of companies and organizations throughout the world,
the mainframe is today the benchmark by which all other major
computing platforms are measured. Despite the abundance of
additional platforms that now pervade all organization's IT
environments, the mainframe still holds more than 60% of the world's
data. Why?
Because of tremendous advances in manufacturing, technology and the
embracing of open standards, the mainframe performs better, is
more reliable and costs less to support than any other computing
platform. So when someone calls the mainframe old and
outdated---what are they referring to? They certainly aren't talking
about the hardware itself or the state-of-the art operating systems
that drives the hardware. In fact, just about all of the vendors who
hawk alternatives to the mainframe actually use "mainframe-class" as
the benchmark to compare to their systems, including
Sun,
Microsoft,
Intel
and
Hewlett Packard.
What is it then that still allows people to talk about the mainframe
with nostalgia?
Internet computing is continually
transforming the way information is presented, exchanged and used.
This means that the interfaces to the mainframe -- both the human
and computer-to-computer interfaces, are fundamentally changing. And
it's those interfaces that have not kept pace with today's de-facto
standards of Internet-based computing, including full Web-browser
visual interfaces and data exchange using Web Services. The
mainframe must embody and empower these interfaces; not in a
patch-work fashion, but comprehensively, to be accepted by today's
demanding class of Web-savvy users.
Count on illustro for Innovation Made Simple.
Making that happen is illustro's
mission. We are delivering software, services and education
that empowers today's mainframe customer to not only embrace
emerging standards, but to lead the way with innovation. But what
differentiates illustro's approach from any other company who makes
similar claims? One word.
Easy.
We believe that web-enabling mainframe
applications should mean return-on-investment in hours, not months.
And our
z/Web-Host
product
provides just that. And with the rapidly emerging standard of using
Web Services and XML in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to be
the accepted method of exchanging important data between computers,
our z/XML-Host
product delivers a powerful yet simple solution. Our customers have
their Internet-enabling projects in production in the same time it
takes just to evaluate
other competitive solutions.
illustro has assembled an unmatched array of
talented individuals spanning decades of experience in the mainframe
industry. Our software solutions are written by developers with
dozens of years of mainframe development background. Our technical
support staff has been helping customers around the world for over
30 years. We offer a
full
array of professional services, to
make your projects go smooth and easy. illustro even delivers
comprehensive
education classes, seminars
and lectures at
industry events to
share our knowledge and to improve the skills and capabilities of
the community.
From industry leaders that you've come to know
and rely on over the years, illustro has a lot to offer, and you'll
find full details on our web site. It's about time someone untangled
the labyrinth of technology and combined it with the most robust
computing platform in history.
But beyond everything -- we're different because
we're making it
Easy.
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