The Developer-DB Love-Hate Relationship
There’s a reason why database administration or engineering remains a separate specialty. There are a large number of rabbit holes…
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From Bluemix to IBM Cloud, from Cloud Foundry to Code Engine
"Bring Your Own Community"About seven years ago, I started to work with, then blog about Bluemix and Cloud Foundry. Not my first, but one of the first posts is titled "Some fun with Bluemix, Cloud Foundry, Python, JSON and the Weather". Reading that ar...
The new IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS Migration Assistant is live to guide you through COBOL migration
The IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS Migration Assistant (CMA) has been very popular among COBOL migration users. It is a…
Typical Techniques for Improving Datacenter Mainframe Performance
One common sense, and three less-than great Business has been booming, for the most part, for large enterprises in the…
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…
The Mainframe’s Place In DevOps
Read an interesting article a while back on how to pull off a DevOps implementation successfully: 10 ways to win at…
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,…
Don’t Believe the Myth-information about the Mainframe: Part 2
In this series, Janet Sun explores and dispels numerous myths around the mainframe. Continued from Part 1. Mainframes are Expensive?…
Chronic Mainframe Migration Strategy
Some fun started with an interesting article from Chris O'Malley on LinkedIn a few months back about chronic mainframe migration…
A Mainframe Migration Disaster Story
A few years ago, I was speaking at a conference on the west coast—attending were mostly IT executives from startup…