There’s a bullet aimed at the heart of your business. That bullet is the lie of Bimodal IT, which asserts that you can let your mainframe languish in Waterfall mode while you focus all your agility efforts elsewhere. It’s tempting to believe the Bimodal IT lie —...
The numbers are clear and compelling: Mainframe usage is on the rise: By this year, 64% of mainframe-powered organizations (up from 57% last year) will be running more than half of their business-critical workloads (analytics, blockchain, web, mobile) on the...
No. But it has been a victim of friendly-fire. I’m not sure that there is a headline relating to IT and enterprise software more cliché than the one at the top of this article. Cringeworthy? Perhaps, particularly If you’re in your 4th decade in the mainframe and...
Mainframe users have a problem: finding people with the right skills to service their mission-critical systems. It isn’t language: learning COBOL and PL/I is relatively easy. The difficult part is understanding the logic of systems built by programmers who...
In a growing economy, increases in expected business workloads are making their impacts felt in today's busiest data centers, through increased online transactions, web requests, mobile requests, batch jobs, ad hoc queries, data warehousing analysis, and more....
System upgrades are a fact of life. If you're running a mainframe system, you're doing it for a good reason—and that’s almost certainly because you need the performance, capacity, throughput and security. Not only that, you're more than likely experiencing growing...
The consensus is clear and, now, strongly supported by both Forrester and Gartner. Enterprises must bring agility to mainframe development. After all, large enterprises run on mainframe code and mainframe data. So it’s imperative that they be able to nimbly twist that...
Law Brakers According to Wikipedia (Moore's law), Intel co-founder Gordon Moore introduced his eponymous law in a 1965 paper that described a doubling every year in the number of components per integrated circuit. By 1975, he had already adjusted that downwards to...
Working on a political campaign back in the day, I consistently found myself assigned to the phone banks. I would manually dial constituents who had voted in a specific way in the past, identify myself as a volunteer for the candidate that matched their preferences,...
What is mainframe modernization? Well, a lot of vendors will tell you that it is the replacement of some, or all of your mainframe infrastructure, which is old and costly to run (or so they will tell you), with commodity servers (and their software and services), that...
