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,…
Have retailers not learned anything from past Black Friday and Cyber Monday disasters?
In my last article, Are You Ready for Growing Mobile Workloads, I asked you to keep an eye out for…
Every IT Professional Should Work in a Mainframe Environment (…at some point)
Talk to anyone who has ever worked on a mainframe and you will see that they are acutely aware of…
Are You Ready for Growing Mobile Workloads?
More and more businesses are introducing mobile applications as part of their business activities intended to be more competitive, to…
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…