Should you call time on your existing mainframe development environment?
The traditional 3270 mainframe development environment deserves respect. It has enabled developers to create and support some of the world’s…
The Mainframe: Three Dimensional Thinking In IT
This is not an article on multidimensional databases, 3D rendering, or spatial databases, but rather how CIOs in IT think,…
Mainframes on Autopilot!
Yes, mainframes are now on autopilot, not unlike Tesla automobiles! While everyone is chasing the next big, disruptive unicorn like…
Settling for less
I was reading the news on CNN recently about a power outage in California, which reminded me of some serious…
Mainframe optimization on the high seas
Being in the mainframe business for about 10 years now, I hear interesting anecdotes from time to time, often from…
Cost vs Performance: an endless battle?
Several techniques to move the needle For some reason, technology experts are regularly claiming the end of the mainframe. When…
Mainframes are used increasingly by major banks and financial institutions
Do you think the mainframe is dead? A dinosaur, an ancient piece of technology that has outlived its usefulness like…
Data Centers, Mainframes and the rest!
When compared to an x86/distributed server environment, the operational costs of the power consumption versus IBM’s Mainframe z Systems are…