On Mainframe Availability and Performance
On January 14, 2015, IBM announced new mainframe hardware (z13) with a new Operating System version (z/OS V2.2). Together, the…
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5 best practices for a well-managed z/Datacenter
Over the past few years, IT departments have come under increasing pressure to plan and manage their budgets more efficiently. End users are more discerning than ever: they demand the ability to do more with less. Consequently, optimization and rationalization…
Mainframe – the dinosaur on the cutting edge
There was a time, quite a while ago now, when there were serious IT executives announcing that the mainframe was…
My mind is getting cloudy…
I'm sitting in a big Dallas hotel with hundreds of other attendees at a "Microsoft Cloud Roadshow" event. This is…
Getting off that mainframe – or maybe not!
Historically, IT organizations have abandoned the mainframe platform for cost reasons. It's a fact, and there's no getting around that;…