DevOps in the multi-platform Data Center
Positioned by some as the panacea of new-age IT management, promising shorter development times, improved business processes, reduced time to…
Fast Mainframe Data Access – Apples and Oranges
In a growing economy, increases in expected business workloads are making their impacts felt in today's busiest data centers, through increased online transactions, web requests, mobile requests, batch jobs, ad hoc queries, data warehousing analysis, and more. Meanwhile, disruptive technologies…
Mainframe Upgrades – They Happen
System upgrades are a fact of life. If you're running a mainframe system, you're doing it for a good reason—and…
Yes, There Is a Clear Path to Mainframe Agility
The consensus is clear and, now, strongly supported by both Forrester and Gartner. Enterprises must bring agility to mainframe development.…
Mainframe News Out There
Once a month we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk…
Database security – You need to pay better attention to it
Almost 2 years ago, it was reported that over 10,000 MongoDB databases had been deleted by ransomware groups - and…
The Mainframe’s Place In DevOps
Read an interesting article a while back on how to pull off a DevOps implementation successfully: 10 ways to win at…
Why mainframe shops are procrastinating over multi-factor authentication
In my last article I outlined why, for a number of reasons, mainframe shops are growing increasingly aware of the…
What You Don’t Know About Your Mainframe Backups Could Cost You
Based on estimates and benchmarks from Technavio and Gartner, the mainframe market—hardware and software—is worth about $44 billion a year.…
What is container pricing?
Container Pricing, which was introduced in late-2017, is a new pricing solution that makes scaling workloads more economical. Container Pricing…
Moore’s the Pity: How the Mainframe can help us Adapt to a Post-Moore’s-Law Reality
Law Brakers According to Wikipedia (Moore's law), Intel co-founder Gordon Moore introduced his eponymous law in a 1965 paper that…