COVID-19 - Information about corona, symptoms and how it spread

About COVID-19:

COVID-19 as Corona is a virus which now can attack humans. this virus has been infecting animals for over years which have now evolved or have been evolved to infect humans. This virus is also like similar to HIV which start attacking the immunity system first and once it has weaken the system then spread to lungs and give server damage to lunch. This is a deadly virus and a well developed human will get infected and will be developing in the host for over 1 week to 14 days. During these period your body before start recognizing the virus will get developed and it will start spreading to your lungs.

Symptoms:

During the first attack of this virus, you will get sore throat (server). And this is the first symptom which is also common when we get cold.
1. Tiredness
2. Sore throat and irritation
3. Cough
4. Fever
5. difficult in breathing (once it attack your lungs)

How it spread?

The virus can spread through below process:
1. Hand to hand contact
2. Victim sneeze
3. Hope the virus can be alive for 8 days outside
4. Even if there is a heavy moist in air the virus can be alive and spread through air

How to avoid this?

Currently we have to stay in closed place, not to roam in open space also avoid going to places where the Corona positive victims have been spotted.

Mainframe with Mobile

Due to emerging high range mobile applications, there is a chance to integrate mobile with Mainframe.

Why small device with high end compute(Mainframe)? Because just think of Million of mobiles getting connected with Mainframe accessing the resource and database.

It is possible to connect Mobile and Mainframe and we can access our mobile with high rate of efficiency and data transfer. Please refer the link below to know more about IBM worklight which is a kind of application developed by IBM for mobile purpose:

IBM Worklight: http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/worklight 

Also there is an option in CICS to develop a GUI for mobile users. Please refer the link below for more details.

CICS: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/mobile/

So there are more possibilities to make a better mobile experience with the most secured and more powerful computing device.

Please contact me if you have a better knowledge or better options for this development.

Ellison aims his first Oracle 'mainframe' at Big Blue....

Larry Ellison has launched the first mainframe-class machine that he can correctly say he made sure came to market, and now he is going to take a run at IBM's mainframe and Unix server businesses.
What's more, it looks like he will to be able to make some credible arguments as to why customers running Oracle software – and indeed any mission-critical app that runs on any Unix – will run better on the new Sparc T5 and M5 servers.
Oracle announced the new Sparc servers at an event in San Francisco today, and El Reg already gave you the feeds and speeds on the new T5 and M5 processors and their respective systems. At that event, Ellison touched on some of the salient characteristics of the new servers, but he spent most of his time explaining how Oracle would keep the pedal to the metal, pushing performance even further after taking the lead from Intel and IBM in terms of throughput-per-processor and bang-for-the-buck against IBM's Power Systems lineup.
Ellison lovingly pats his first Oracle mainframe
At first blush, it seems a bit peculiar that Ellison should care so much about hardware – but maybe not.
When Ellison cofounded Oracle decades ago with Bob Miner, IBM mainframes and DEC VAXes were the main machines people used in commercial computing. And Oracle has always run its software on IBM mainframes and is well acquainted with their virtues: security, I/O throughput, reliability – and their excessive costs.
Ellison paid $7.6bn to buy Sun Microsystems a little more than three years ago to get Java and Solaris, but also to get hardware engineers who could build systems that would push back against the onslaught of IBM in the Unix space. And contrary to lots of talk, Ellison has maintained his commitment to both Sparc and x86 iron. Ellison likes to build and control his entire stack, and Sparc processors and systems let him do that.
When you are a multi-billionaire, you can indulge.
The Sparc T Series chips have more threads than any other processor out there, to be sure, but they have not been very good at raw, single-threaded, integer workloads. The situation got better with the Sparc T4, and it has apparently got quite a bit better with the Sparc T5 – and, presumably, its Sparc M5 "mainframe-class" big brother.

Oracle says it has passed IBM on integer throughput performance
"These machines deliver better integer performance than the IBM Power series," proclaimed Ellison. "The T5 microprocessor itself delivers better integer performance than IBM's PowerPC chip. Now that is really extraordinary, because IBM has had that lead for a very, very long time for integer rate performance, but that lead now moves over from IBM Power to Sparc T5.
"A lot of people are surprised by this," continued Ellison. "When Oracle bought Sun, a lot of people thought the Sparc microprocessor was a real laggard. There were a lot of people who believed that we would never catch up. Well, we have done better than catch up. We caught up, and then we passed the competition. We passed x86 and we passed IBM Power."

Larry Ellison's CPU roadmap throwdown to Intel and IBM
But, Ellison said, playing catch-up is easier than trying to go and double performance again as it has done with the Sparc T3 to T4 to T5. So what is Oracle going to do for an encore? Add database, Java, and other accelerators to its chips to make its software run faster, and free up those Sparc processor cores to do other tasks. Just like it added vector math units and encryption/decryption units to chips, Oracle is going to add database and Java accelerators.
Here's one example of a kind of database search acceleration that Oracle will cook into its processors in 2014:

Oracle is going to accelerate database functions directly on Sparcs
In this example, you want to extract a range of matching data from the database. So you load the data into main memory and the processor runs the database algorithms to make the comparisons to find matches. When you find a match, you save it, and when you don't find a match, you ignore it. The processor cores are obviously busy through this whole process. Now, etch that database search function in the chip. You drop the data you are searching for into a buffer and the database search accelerator looks through the entire database without invoking the processor at all.
"We think that this will give us a greater and greater advantage going forward," Ellison said.
It doesn't hurt that Oracle owns some of the most popular systems software in the world, so it has customers who will be eager for these accelerated functions even if they are probably getting nervous about vendor lock-in. But that said, with Oracle claiming up to a factor of 10X improvement in bang-for-the-buck versus IBM's Power Systems machines, it's already trying to claim it has a huge lead in value. The question is, can Oracle start penetrating IBM accounts, particularly those that used to be Sun accounts? That remains to be seen.
But with the kind of numbers that Ellison was throwing around at Tuesday's event, you can bet a lot more CIOs and CFOs are going to listen. Ellison claimed that the new Sparc M5-32, which has 32 sockets using six-core M5 chips and scales up to 32TB of memory in a single rack, offers three times the bang-for-the-buck compared to IBM's top-end Power 795 system, and has an order of magnitude better value-for-dollar compared to the high-end Sparc Enterprise M9000 machines from Fujitsu, which are indeed several years long in the tooth.
Of course, the real question is how the Sparc T5 machines stack up against x86 systems in terms of price/performance – and Ellison didn't have a single thing to say about that. Larry & Co. are obsessed with taking share back from Big Blue in the midrange and high-end of the Unix market. ®

IBM announced its first quarter earnings for 2013 ...

IBM announced its first quarter earnings
for 2013 , reiterating its earnings guidance
for the year. Bearing in mind my previous
cautions about not reading too much into
one quarter or into one segment of the
global mainframe ecosystem, IBM's
zEnterprise server business performed
quite well, growing 7% year over year
(8% at constant currency). Any growth in
the server business these days is highly
likely to be a marketshare gain, and so it
was with zEnterprise. Yes, that's correct:
IBM mainframes are gaining substantial
marketshare in the server market.
IBM's CFO added a few comments to give
some color to that performance. One
comment was that "MIPS" deliveries
galloped ahead faster (27%) than the
growth in revenue, so that means
customers continue to enjoy progressively
lower prices when they buy mainframe
capacity. He also pointed out that
speciality engines are continuing to
perform well, too, reinforcing the fact
that mainframe customers continue to
place new applications on mainframes at a
brisk pace. And he mentioned that
several large mainframe sales got pushed
into the second quarter, perhaps due to
the unusual timing of the Easter holiday,
so IBM is expecting a further increase to
double digit zEnterprise growth in the
second quarter.
Overall, though, IBM's hardware business
had a tough quarter. One surprise (to me,
anyway) was IBM's Power server business
which declined 32 percent. There were
several comments about that statistic.
One is that IBM is overwhelmingly #1 in
the UNIX server market and still probably
gained marketshare — that gives you
some idea how horribly Oracle/Sun and
HP are doing in the same market
segment. Also, IBM had a somewhat
tepid quarter in their so-called "growth
markets," and 20% or more of IBM's
business in those markets is hardware, a
lot of which is Power-based. There were
also some model cycle effects as Power
servers are transitioning to POWER7+
processors. IBM said they'll be increasing
their efforts to promote Linux on Power
in order to try to win a greater share of
the Linux server market to add to their
dominance in the UNIX market.
IBM's CFO noted that the PureSystems
are doing quite well. In fact, IBM's CFO's
comments would indicate they're selling
in much greater numbers than the Oracle
"Exa" systems, probably because they're
more open and flexible, providing direct
support for a much wider range of
industry applications while also delivering
the benefits of integration. (The new IBM
PureData System for Analytics, featuring
Netezza technology, is the PureSystem
model most relevant to zEnterprise
customers.) However, the growth spots in
the quarter (zEnterprise and
PureSystems) were not enough to offset
the overall decline (14%, excluding IBM's
divested Retail hardware segment) in
IBM's total hardware business.
In his comments to analysts, IBM's CFO
pointed out how storage is changing, with
more content and value in the software
used to manage storage. (IBM's storage
software business was up more than 10%,
he pointed out.) To which I would add
that trend is true for all types of
hardware, and I've mentioned that
before. It doesn't mean you can't do
without hardware — far from it — but
getting the combination right is critically
important, and how you do the
accounting is much less important.
Likewise, I would caution cost-focused IT
organizations (which is almost all of them)
not to concentrate much on hardware
costs. The other parts of IT, notably
staffing, continue to increase as a share of
spending. Ignore those and your bottom
line is in peril.

Chance to become a good COBOL programmer ...!

David Brown is worried. As managing
director of the IT transformation group at
Bank of New York Mellon, he is
responsible for the health and welfare of
112,500 Cobol programs, 343 million
lines of code, that run core banking and
other operations. But many of the people
who built that code base, some of which
goes back to the early days of Cobol in
the 1960s, will be retiring over the next
several years.
"We have people we will be losing who
have a lot of business knowledge. That
scares me," Brown says. He's concerned
about finding new Cobol programmers,
who are expected to be in short supply in
the next five to ten years. But what really
keeps him up at night is the thought that
he may not be able to transfer the deep
understanding of the business logic
embedded within the bank's programs
before it walks out the door with the
employees who are retiring.
More than 50 years after Cobol came on
the scene, the language is alive and well
in the world's largest corporations, where
it excels at executing large scale batch
and transaction processing operations on
mainframes. The language is known for its
scalability, performance and mathematical
accuracy. But as the Boomer generation
prepares to check out of the workforce, IT
executives are taking a fresh look at their
options.