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…
Pervasive encryption concerns
In today’s treacherous world of constant hacking threats and corresponding data breaches, IT security and breach prevention has become a top-line concern for everyone in large IT organizations. With over six million data records lost or stolen every day –…
Multi-Factor Authentication
There was a time when mainframes were in a world of their own, separated from other computing platforms. A world…
Mainframe News Out There
Once a month we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk…
A view from the C-level
New mainframe technologies that will make a difference to your business Be honest: what do you really think of IT? …
Controlling Costs, or Leaving Money on the Table?
I am the CFO of one of the most long-lived mainframe software companies on the planet. The company has been…
Db2 12 In-Memory Feature: Fast Index Traversal
Db2 12 is classified as an in-memory data base by Gartner. It is not just a simple in-memory data base…
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…