The mainframe never went away. It simply stopped auditioning for attention. While cloud-native startups, hyperscalers, and SaaS platforms dominated enterprise strategy conversations, the organizations running the world’s most critical workloads quietly kept doing what...
Training Downtime Is Costly. Cloud Monitoring Prevents It. Workforce training remains a significant topic in the mainframe ecosystem. The trend has shifted from workforce training as a nice-to-have support function to a necessity for operational infrastructure....
The database world is shifting. Between skyrocketing data volumes, evolving cyber threats, and the rise of AI, traditional tools no longer cut it. That’s why IBM’s latest updates to Db2 are on target and timely. The three new Db2 tools – Db2 12.1.2, Db2 Intelligence...
Mainframes handle around 68% of the entire production of the IT workloads of the world. They are the backbone of modern business, any interruptions could devastate companies and customers, cost millions of dollars, and damage reputations. Given the significance...
Everyone is under pressure to modernize their mainframe environment—keeping all the mission-critical benefits without being tied to a crushing cost structure and a style of computing that often discourages the agility and creativity enterprises badly need. Several...
In 1965, Gordon Moore observed that integrated circuits were taking less and less space at a geometric rate, an observation that came to be known, in various forms, as Moore’s Law. In 1966, the original Star Trek TV series began each episode with, “Space, the...
Cybersecurity is always in a state of change. There are new security features and new attack methods - or was it the other way? Over the past months, several new security features were added to IBM Cloud. In this blog post, I want to quickly describe them and point...
IBM Automatic Binary Optimizer for z/OS (ABO) is a unique offering that applies cutting-edge optimization technology to improve the performance of already-compiled COBOL applications built with VS COBOL 1.3 to Enterprise COBOL 4.2. You can now try ABO out with an...
Introduction Organizations are drawn to the promise of AIOps to maintain resiliency by leveraging AI-driven intelligence and automation for quick and accurate decisions. AIOps uses artificial intelligence to simplify IT operations management through...
Much has been written about cloud computing, and, for a long time, it was very much an either/or situation. People highlighted how much better the mainframe was, and others focused on the things cloud computing was best at. It seems that now, the way forward is to...
