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…
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 from 57% last year) will be running more than half of their business-critical workloads (analytics, blockchain, web, mobile) on the…
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…
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…
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…