Randy McCoy

Regular Planet Mainframe Blog Contributor Randy McCoy is the CFO of DataKinetics – the global leader in Data Performance and Optimization. In his role, Randy regularly works with the C-level of Global Fortune 500 firms to provide insight into complex technologies and their operational impacts – leading to thriving, long-standing client and colleague relationships with mutually beneficial outcomes.
The Cost of Not Investing in Technology

The Cost of Not Investing in Technology

Technical debt costs US companies an estimated $2.41 trillion annually. This is part one in a four-part series exploring the consequences of not investing in technology. As CFO of DataKinetics, my role extends beyond adding and subtracting figures in a ledger. When...

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CFO Thoughts on Z Day 2022

CFO Thoughts on Z Day 2022

Tuesday April 5, 2022 was a great day to be part of the mainframe community. As you may have seen on the wire, that was the day IBM “unveiled IBM® z16™, IBM's next-generation system with an integrated on-chip AI accelerator—delivering latency-optimized...

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Controlling Costs, or Leaving Money on the Table?

Controlling Costs, or Leaving Money on the Table?

I am the CFO of one of the most long-lived mainframe software companies on the planet. The company has been around for 40+ years, it has been profitable for almost all of that time, and its products are running in the mainframe datacenters of many of the world’s...

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