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For years now, major enterprises – including banks, airlines and insurance companies the world over – have remained faithful to…
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COBOL: Still the Best for New High-Volume Applications After All These Years
It’s not “cobalt” – though it is often blue. It’s not out-of-date – though programs written in it 60 years ago require very little updating to continue working today. It’s not inefficient – though many of its newest efficiencies don’t…
50 Years ago in Mainframe Computing
How many computer platforms could justify a headline like that!? Well, it has been almost 50 years since NASA landed…
If It Ain’t Broke…
It was Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget, who made the phrase “If it…
The Mainframe versus the Server Farm – A Comparison
Google, Facebook, and Twitter own giant data centers all over the planet, and they are built with racks of commodity…
5 Ways to bridge the Millennial – Baby Boomer gap
For the first time ever, we have five generations in the workplace at the same time. This is most profound…
CIO Challenge: Dodging the Bimodal IT Bullet
There’s a bullet aimed at the heart of your business. That bullet is the lie of Bimodal IT, which asserts…
The Mainframe Manager’s Essential Guide to Hiring Millennials
The numbers are clear and compelling: Mainframe usage is on the rise: By this year, 64% of mainframe-powered organizations (up…
Is the Mainframe Dead?
No. But it has been a victim of friendly-fire. I’m not sure that there is a headline relating to IT…
Creating the Future by Slashing Complexity
Mainframe users have a problem: finding people with the right skills to service their mission-critical systems. It isn’t language: learning…
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…