How Do I Love Thee, Mainframe? Let Me Count the Ways
With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning for amending “Sonnet 43” for the headline, today is a celebration of love. In…
Virtual Mainframes: A Teaching Tool
As technology continually evolves, so should training, specifically for mainframe developers. Traditional physical mainframes have been enterprise technology’s backbone, but…
Free Training, a Real Mainframe, and Top Skills — Meet the EMMA Apprenticeship Program
The demand for skilled mainframe professionals continues to grow in a world with Big Iron powering critical industries and massive…
Building a Global Mainframe Talent Pipeline: Broadcom’s Investment in Customer Success
It may come as a surprise that the narrative of a vast mainframe skills gap is…false. More precisely, it’s outdated.…
2024 Planet Mainframe Hits and Highlights
In 2024, the mainframe world saw remarkable developments in market growth, workforce trends, modernization efforts, and security considerations—and you were…
Getting to Git: Guiding Mainframers Toward Modern DevOps
As the mainframe community moves toward more agile, DevOps-driven practices, the question isn’t whether to adopt modern tools—it’s how to…
Get to Know Amanda Hendley: Managing Editor of Planet Mainframe
Amanda Hendley’s career is rooted in a combination of leadership and deep curiosity about technology. A graduate of the Georgia…
Mainframes are swimlanes, AI is sprinkles, and COBOL only seems glacial
Derek Britton is one of COBOL’s biggest advocates, a one-man PR agency for the 65-year-old language that “suffers from an…