I am worried for our future middle management —those who are rising in the ranks quickly, the go-getters. I’m talking about the ones who become directors after about five years of experience. They look to artificial intelligence (AI) with a degree of certainty. But in...
—From a guy who’s burned both soufflés and production servers Last year, I had a unique opportunity to pursue a lifelong ambition and go to culinary school. I took a sabbatical with the help of my team and had a year to think less about performance and optimization of...
Reducing or eliminating costs is an important goal for every IT department. Each decision regarding your computer resources must be weighed not only on the value that they can deliver to your organization, but upon their cost to procure, implement, and maintain. And,...
Talk to anyone who has ever worked on a mainframe and you will see that they are acutely aware of important factors that are sometimes overlooked on other platforms. Things like security, control, scalability, and reliability are second nature to mainframe computer...
"Big data" and the impact of analytics on large quantities of data is a persistent trend these days in just about every organization. The general idea is that large amounts of data, from multiple sources, and of multiple types, can be analyzed to produce heretofore...
Assuring optimal application and system performance is one of the most important goals of IT professionals. And for DB2 developers and DBAs, tuning and monitoring are often daily tasks. But there are many factors involved in DB2 optimization and performance monitoring...
A continuing, lingering perception that the mainframe is dead continues on in some parts of the IT industry. It seems that we constantly hear about IT shops that are planning to get rid of their mainframes. But rarely do we ever hear about it after the fact. No, it is...
So what is a mainframe? The answer to that question might, at first glance, seem to be obvious to some of us who have worked with mainframe systems our entire career. But have you ever really tried to step back and think about the question? What if your Mother asked...
In 2012, analysts at Gartner described the changing dynamics of digital business as being driven by what they call The Nexus of Forces. This important concept is crucial to understand and adapt to because it is impacting all of our businesses and the computing...
When asked what is the single most important or stressful aspect of their job, DBAs typically respond “assuring optimal performance.” Indeed, a Forrester Research survey of critical DBA concerns indicates that performance and troubleshooting tops the list of most...
