I welcome our new machine overlords
It’s been a while since my last overly alarmist IT security rant, and with the holiday season just past—when millions…
IoT
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 increased online transactions, web requests, mobile requests, batch jobs, ad hoc queries, data warehousing analysis, and more. Meanwhile, disruptive technologies…
Analytics – now – and in the future
It has been going on for decades on the mainframe The future is about doing it better in multi-platform environments…
Blockchain: Challenges, opportunities, and a car in every driveway
When the automobile replaced the horse and carriage, it was just considered to be a faster horse. What you might…
Should DB2 have an Immutable Table Function?
I love hearing about Blockchain; if you are involved in Fintech, then surely by now you have heard a lot…
What’s waiting round the mainframe corner?
Anyone who has been working on mainframes for any length of time knows that things are always changing. Many people…
2020 vision
I was working recently with a mixed bag of people from a company, who were trying to predict the future…
Data Centers, Mainframes and the rest!
When compared to an x86/distributed server environment, the operational costs of the power consumption versus IBM’s Mainframe z Systems are…
Mobile Computing, the Mainframe and z/OS Connect
Mobile computing has had a seismic impact on IT and the modern computing architecture—and it will continue into the foreseeable…
Blockchain A Great Candidate For The Mainframe
Most of you are undoubtedly familiar with one of the biggest buzz terms in the industry by now: blockchain. If…
Punk’s not dead and neither is the mainframe
Admittedly, I’m as much a music fan as I’m a technophile—perhaps it’s this combination that makes it easy for me…