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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How AI Applications Are Triggering A Renaissance in Legacy Mainframe Data
Everyone is familiar with the promise of AI and machine learning. Like a human, these intelligent systems are supposed to be trainable through formal means, and also able to learn by deriving meaning from data that is presented to them.…
Porting an Enterprise App to System Z – My Experience Pt.3
Part 3 of 4: The Bad As I’ve explained in Part 1 Basics and Part 2 Good, I did a…
Porting an Enterprise App to System Z – My Experience Pt.2
Part 2 of 4: The Good I provided a simplistic overview of what I intended to port to Linux for…
Porting an Enterprise App to System Z – My Experience
Part 1 of 4: The Basics At the end of 2016 and lasting a few months into 2017, I completed…
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,…
Bringing Machine Learning to Big Iron
In today’s data driven economies there is evermore pressure to drive financial returns and payback for IT investments, increasing the…
Mainframe news out there – November 2017
Once a month we like to pick articles from other blogs that we feel are interesting enough to talk about…
Open Source on Steroids
The words “digital transformation” are on the lips of every person in technology and tech media, as well as many…
The Third Platform and the Mainframe
The Third Platform is defined as the interdependencies between mobile computing, social media, cloud computing, and information/analytics (big data), and…
Think before you click Hybrid Cloud Computing
Many of you may be thinking why on earth am I even suggesting this? Hybrid cloud computing offers flexibility, fault…