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…
Three things I would start doing today to help me save IT budget for tomorrow
I am lucky enough in my job to get opportunities to meet with some pretty senior people in the IT…
Big Data and Gardening
You can be a botanist, a horticulturist or a gardener—it depends on how knowledgeable you want to be about what…
Starting Small with Big Data
I recently read an excellent IBM paper on best practices for achieving line-of-business (LOB) performance increases through enterprise data analytics.…
My Great Uncle Was a Farmer so I am a Mainframer
Why am I a Mainframer? It all started when my great uncle bought a Combine…. When I was growing up,…
Internet of Things Managed by….Mainframe?
Michael Porter at the Harvard Business Review recently said that the Internet of Things (IoT) will deliver an economic boom…
A Look Back at 2015
2015 was a great year for the mainframe business—and that was great news for large IT organizations running mainframe systems,…
Have retailers not learned anything from past Black Friday and Cyber Monday disasters?
In my last article, Are You Ready for Growing Mobile Workloads, I asked you to keep an eye out for…