Mainframes and the Cloud: Made for Each Other
April 2018 marked the 54th anniversary of IBM’s mainframes. It is uncertain if anyone could have ever predicted such a…
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A Lack Of Expertise Does Not Force You To Abandon The Mainframe
“Quick! Abandon the mainframe. …Oh, and by the way, buy a bunch of our platforms and services for millions of dollars!” —Distributed systems manufacturers Craig Mullins did quite an insightful piece a while back about the state of things in…
Improving the Bank’s Bottom Line: Reducing Cost per Transaction
A few years ago, I invited a group of CIOs to become an Advisory Board for my company. Their role…
A Brief History of (Mainframe) Time
Timing, timekeeping, time synchronization, more specifically accurate synchronization, is a key requirement for modern information technology systems. This is especially…
You Do Not Need to Replace Your Legacy Enterprise Software
I recently read an interesting article on a vendor website - I got there after one of their spam emails…
Solo: A Mainframe Story (Special Edition)
In today’s world, it's almost impossible for any mainframe operations to work solo: going it alone in terms of the…
Digital Denial: Why You Can’t Trust the Application Economy
The NYSE and a major airline shut down and, in the case of the airline, shuts down twice is just…
IBM z14 Model ZR1: A Smaller Mainframe for a Larger World
On April 10, 2018, IBM announced their latest mainframe offering, the IBM z14 Model ZR1. This announcement came hot on…
Is your business affected by GDPR?
What GDPR Means for Mainframe Storage, Archive and Backup On April 27, 2016, the European Union passed regulation 2016/679, more…
Mainframe apps
While a large chunk of the world seems to think that mainframes are out of date and barely hanging on…
Help! Lost on Z!
Is it a misconception that mainframe professionals find it hard to get help? When we talk about non-mainframe technology, there…