How to Tell Your Mom about the Mainframe
So what is a mainframe? The answer to that question might, at first glance, seem to be obvious to some…
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A Mainframe Migration Disaster Story
A few years ago, I was speaking at a conference on the west coast—attending were mostly IT executives from startup companies, and it was a lively group. Also, some IT folks were in attendance from some more established companies. Afterwards…
The Mainframe Dilemma: Coping With an Aging Workforce
A continuing, lingering perception that the mainframe is dead continues on in some parts of the IT industry. It seems…
Keeping mainframe up-to-date
How can you make sure that your mainframe staff stay up-to-date with the latest ideas in the mainframe world? The…
The news seems to be bad for Mainframes as an industry.
People are searching for the term progressively less over the years: www.google.com/trends/ IBM is close to underperforming the S&P 500…
The Evolving Mainframe Landscape
Most of us acknowledge the fact that the mainframe will be around for a very long time. There are too…
ReBoot Hill Revisited
Once upon a time, a website existed that recorded some of the most spectacularly failed mainframe migration projects. Of interest…
Big Data and the Mainframe: A Perfect Partnership
"Big data" and the impact of analytics on large quantities of data is a persistent trend these days in just…
My Great Uncle Was a Farmer so I am a Mainframer
Why am I a Mainframer? It all started when my great uncle bought a Combine…. When I was growing up,…
Internet of Things Managed by….Mainframe?
Michael Porter at the Harvard Business Review recently said that the Internet of Things (IoT) will deliver an economic boom…
A Look Back at 2015
2015 was a great year for the mainframe business—and that was great news for large IT organizations running mainframe systems,…