At SHARE Cleveland 2025, BMC’s Jeremy Hamilton sat down with Planet Mainframe to discuss the biggest shifts in mainframe operations. From observability and SRE to the practical use of generative AI, Hamilton shared why the platform is evolving faster than ever, and...
The mainframe industry is no stranger to market surveys, and a variety of organizations aim to determine trends and attitudes using regular market inquiries. A brand-new market survey, instigated by mainframe software specialists PopUp Mainframe, recently set about...
In 2024, the mainframe world saw remarkable developments in market growth, workforce trends, modernization efforts, and security considerations—and you were an integral part of it. Catch up on the big ideas and highlights you shared on Planet Mainframe in 2024. ...
Derek Britton is one of COBOL’s biggest advocates, a one-man PR agency for the 65-year-old language that “suffers from an existential challenge.” We caught up with him at SHARE Kansas City to talk COBOL, AI, and the future of mainframes.From his perspective, COBOL is...
Proven and widely available, mainframe leaders can take advantage of modern developer productivity tools, ones often used by distributed/cloud colleagues for AppDev and DevOps optimization. The question, though, is which ones offer the greatest value? Tools and...
“If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked.” That was according to Richard Clarke, former special advisor on cybersecurity to the US President. He added, “What’s more, you deserve to be hacked,” which does seem a little harsh. Maybe...
Three ways to make mainframe applications, the proven engines of business, more adaptable to a changing, AI-infused world For leaders running mission-critical mainframe applications, the lifeblood of their businesses, the platform’s unmatched reliability and security...
As we know, Mainframes are not going away for the next 50 years at least and in growth, 8% of Australian respondents expect general purpose MIPs growth of more than 10% over the next two years, with 46% suggesting growth between 1 and 10% – a more optimistic forecast...
With the advent of IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX), most of the applications that run on Linux at present will also be able to run on z/OS as Docker containers. zCX will be able to run Linux on Z applications on z/OS. Application developers having no z/OS skills...
There’s a bullet aimed at the heart of your business. That bullet is the lie of Bimodal IT, which asserts that you can let your mainframe languish in Waterfall mode while you focus all your agility efforts elsewhere. It’s tempting to believe the Bimodal IT lie —...
