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…
Mainframe
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 was to advise us on the direction the company should go, and how we should position our products and services…
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While a large chunk of the world seems to think that mainframes are out of date and barely hanging on…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…
Demystifying Cloud for Mainframe Managers
The IBM 360 mainframe made its debut in April 1964. With the unprecedented ability to perform 229,000 calculations per second,…
The Great Disconnect
Do CICS programmers / JavaScript programmers know what it is they're working on? Sure they know how their programs work…