5 best practices for a well-managed z/Datacenter
Over the past few years, IT departments have come under increasing pressure to plan and manage their budgets more efficiently.…
On Mainframe Availability and Performance
On January 14, 2015, IBM announced new mainframe hardware (z13) with a new Operating System version (z/OS V2.2). Together, the…
Mainframe – the dinosaur on the cutting edge
There was a time, quite a while ago now, when there were serious IT executives announcing that the mainframe was…
My mind is getting cloudy…
I’m sitting in a big Dallas hotel with hundreds of other attendees at a “Microsoft Cloud Roadshow” event. This is…
Getting off that mainframe – or maybe not!
Historically, IT organizations have abandoned the mainframe platform for cost reasons. It’s a fact, and there’s no getting around that;…