In this first-person piece, Robi Singh shares what he learned in Rome about the changing demands of mainframe resilience—from regulation and cyber recovery to GDPS, AI, and quantum-safe security.The z/Resilience Conference is known for bringing together mainframe...
The mainframe is not going away. The Arcati Mainframe Navigator 2026 reinforces the continued importance of IBM Z to business-critical operations, while also showing an industry taking a pragmatic approach to AI. Rather than expecting AI to fundamentally disrupt the...
When Anthropic's Mythos model and Project Glasswing demonstrated that AI could identify software vulnerabilities at machine speed, the security community took notice. But the most important insight from Mythos wasn't about discovery speed. It was about everything that...
Building on his earlier article, in this second part, Allan Zander explores how AI can analyze data and recommend actions, but it cannot accept responsibility. Trusted mainframe systems and accountable leaders will shape the decisions that define the AI era. ...
Why integrity-led organizations will win the AI era. As organizations continue adopting AI, mainframe trust matters more than ever. Technology can move information and accelerate decisions, achieving more than imagined even 10 years ago. But reliable systems,...
For years, the conversation about Linux on the mainframe was mostly theoretical — a promising idea living at the edge of enterprise strategy. That conversation is changing. A confluence of data points from the 2026 Arcati Mainframe User Survey, BMC's 20th annual...
The Super Bowl looks like a game of skill and instinct: a quarterback scans the defense, the coach makes a call in seconds, a receiver adjusts a route in motion. All while 70,000 people hold their breath. From the outside, it feels like improvisation under pressure....
Introduction Over the last few years there has been an ever-increasing number of widely publicised problems involving notable corporate organisations and the failings of their IT systems. Incidents of ransomware, hacking and phishing are becoming worryingly...
When Beliefs Shape Machines Imagine two people talking in a bar—one believes in God, and the other doesn’t. One swears by Apple, the other by Android. One supports Trump, the other can’t stand him. It doesn’t matter which side you’re on; the point is that people...
Most likely, you have heard the generic acronym RAS, which typically stands for Resiliency, Availability, and Serviceability. However, in the world of time synchronization at IBM, we changed RAS to mean Resiliency, Accuracy, and Security. From RAS to IBMz17 Timing,...
