Moore’s the Pity: How the Mainframe can help us Adapt to a Post-Moore’s-Law Reality
Law Brakers According to Wikipedia (Moore's law), Intel co-founder Gordon Moore introduced his eponymous law in a 1965 paper that…
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What You Don’t Know About Your Mainframe Backups Could Cost You
Based on estimates and benchmarks from Technavio and Gartner, the mainframe market—hardware and software—is worth about $44 billion a year. An estimated 90% of all credit and debit cards were still processed on the mainframe in 2017, and IBM continues…
Always On: Achieving continuous availability for non-data sharing workloads in a z/OS Parallel Sysplex
Introduction The z/OS Parallel Sysplex® technology provides a highly reliable, redundant, and robust environment by clustering together multiple z/OS systems…
This November, Vote Yes on the Mainframe
Working on a political campaign back in the day, I consistently found myself assigned to the phone banks. I would…
Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
Or: We need to talk about mainframe hacking There’s an elephant in the room says Mark Wilson. It’s mainframe-sized, at…
So what Does ‘Mainframe Modernization’ Really Mean?
What is mainframe modernization? Well, a lot of vendors will tell you that it is the replacement of some, or…
9 ways to Master the Z
So you are now working on the mainframe platform. You wanted to keep up with the latest and greatest or…
Do I need real-time, continuous, mainframe security monitoring and auditing?
To be honest, mainframes are pretty secure, aren’t they? We’ve had RACF and other External Security Managers (ESMs) for years.…
A Lack Of Expertise Does Not Force You To Abandon The Mainframe
“Quick! Abandon the mainframe. …Oh, and by the way, buy a bunch of our platforms and services for millions of…
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…
IT Infrastructure Transparency Vital to the Modern Enterprise
Today’s modern data centers are composed of many different systems that works both independently and in conjunction with one another…