IDUG EMEA 2015 Takeaway
IDUG EMEA took place mid November (15th to 20th) in Dublin, Ireland this year. As a resident IDUG attendee, I’ve noticed that this year there was an even higher concentration of big data talk. But the difference now includes the…
It’s A Trap
As the new Star Wars movie approaches, I recall how much I enjoyed the movies when I was a young…
Have retailers not learned anything from past Black Friday and Cyber Monday disasters?
In my last article, Are You Ready for Growing Mobile Workloads, I asked you to keep an eye out for…
Every IT Professional Should Work in a Mainframe Environment (…at some point)
Talk to anyone who has ever worked on a mainframe and you will see that they are acutely aware of…
Are You Ready for Growing Mobile Workloads?
More and more businesses are introducing mobile applications as part of their business activities intended to be more competitive, to…
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.…
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…
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;…