Getting the most from mainframes and the cloud
Much has been written about cloud computing, and, for a long time, it was very much an either/or situation. People…
Cyber security and cyber resiliency for financial institutions (and everyone else)
For everyone with a mainframe, cyber security and cyber resiliency are important. For financial institutions, a major breach could, potentially,…
Don’t Tell the CFO!
The general view that mainframers have of senior financial staff in an organization is that they are people who want…
Moving mission-critical mainframe workloads to the cloud
I know that there are some sites where the cost and the virus have pretty much stopped any kind of…
Tell me about COBOL
Let me start by telling you a story… Once there was a big town and everyone went to school and…
Fear the Mainframe
For many years, it seems, management and the distributed IT team have, more-or-less, ignored the mainframe. The mainframe has been…
Mainframes, containers, and Linux
We all know why mainframes are good – all that reliability, availability, and security stuff that we’ve been hearing about…
Summer – the season for cyber attacks
Keeping your mainframe secure is probably one of your top priorities. You’re looking at cryptography and introducing multi-factor authentication (MFA).…