How Building a Banking App Is Like Making a Michelin-Star Meal
—From a guy who’s burned both soufflés and production servers Last year, I had a unique opportunity to pursue a…
AI and the Illusion of Certainty: Why Machines Cannot Master the Unpredictable
I am worried for our future middle management —those who are rising in the ranks quickly, the go-getters. I’m talking…
What Steam Can Teach Mainframes
My father passed away recently, and I found myself thinking about him. He had many hobbies, but only one that…
Life Is Like A Box Of Chocolates – You Never Know When You’re Going To Get One
The life of a mainframer is not an easy one. After many years in this business, I have had an…
The IBM Mainframe: The most powerful and cost-effective computing platform for business
Many of we mainframe pundits have written about the robustness, power, perseverance, capacity and more importantly, the cost-effectiveness of the…
Getting a Client in Trouble Out of Trouble
Recently, we helped one of our clients – a large investment bank of America – to “find” 30 million dollars…
Pervasive encryption concerns
In today’s treacherous world of constant hacking threats and corresponding data breaches, IT security and breach prevention has become a…
DevOps in the multi-platform Data Center
Positioned by some as the panacea of new-age IT management, promising shorter development times, improved business processes, reduced time to…