Greg DeBo

Principal Consultant @ Team SWAMI, IBM Champion, IBM Gold Consultant Greg DeBo is a Principal Consultant and IBM Gold Consultant at TeamSWAMI, having previously spent 34 years at a large Insurance Company with a focus on Mainframe Data. TeamSWAMI focuses on helping small and midsize clients understand the possibilities that the modern mainframe provides, as well as engaging universities to address the mainframe skills pipeline.

Mainframe Skills in the Heartland: 4 Universities, 4 Days, Hundreds of Students

Jul 22, 2025 | Education, Employer Engagement, Talent and Training, Workforce Development

Mainframe Talent Is Growing: Access It Next Month Hopefully, you caught my 2024 Planet Mainframe piece on the growing mainframe curriculum at Northern Illinois University (NIU), Illinois State University (ISU), and Eastern Illinois University (EIU). Great news: it’s...

Trust Me, You Want an IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator for Christmas

Jun 18, 2025 | Customer Story, data management, DB2, Query

It’s Db2 month at Planet Mainframe, so what better time to talk about my absolute favorite mainframe technology, the IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator (we users like to call it IDAA). What’s Not in a Name If you’ve ever heard me talk about IDAA at a conference, the...

How Important is your Db2 Data—(Mainframe Modernization from a Data Security viewpoint)

Oct 14, 2024 | cyber security, DB2

When talking about Mainframe Modernization, we usually discuss DevOps, Zowe, APIs, Java, Python, etc. But how often does anyone discuss how your security posture needs to be modernized? Do terms like ‘least privilege’ and ‘zero trust’ mean anything to your...

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