Tuesday April 5, 2022 was a great day to be part of the mainframe community. As you may have seen on the wire, that was the day IBM “unveiled IBM® z16™, IBM's next-generation system with an integrated on-chip AI accelerator—delivering latency-optimized...
Technical debt costs US companies an estimated $2.41 trillion annually. This is part one in a four-part series exploring the consequences of not investing in technology. As CFO of DataKinetics, my role extends beyond adding and subtracting figures in a ledger. When...
IDUG EMEA took place mid November (15th to 20th) in Dublin, Ireland this year. As a resident IDUG attendee, I’ve noticed that this year there was an even higher concentration of big data talk. But the difference now includes the battle of where the big data analytics...
Being involved with numerous Big Data efforts over the past few years, I've seen both successful and not-so-successful deployments. Big Data is definitely exciting and it seems as though everyone wants to get involved these days. The thing is many people tend to focus...
Most of us acknowledge the fact that the mainframe will be around for a very long time. There are too many companies whose core business relies on the power and resiliency that the mainframe provides for their mission critical applications. It just makes sense to...
Marketing, much like any other profession, is not without its buzz words—those that permeate our social fabric and come to represent an ideal that is far larger than the sum of its parts. Today, Big Data is by far one of the most famous of these pop-culture terms—but...
The Modern Challenge to Run, Grow and Transform Business As the role relates to business, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) is a fairly modern position—adding to the growing stable of C-level executive job titles—that has been created through necessity as IT...
A recent study found that 70% of enterprises have either applications or infrastructure running in the cloud today—that’s up 12% from 2012. As well, since 2012 cloud investments by large-scale enterprises with over 1,000 employees have increased by 20%—on average...
People are searching for the term progressively less over the years: www.google.com/trends/ IBM is close to underperforming the S&P 500 for the first time in a decade: www.google.com/finance However, there are early signs that the continued rise of the mobile...
The Wright Flyer looks light and insubstantial in images, but on September 17, 1908, the world-changing machine nearly killed its inventor. A propeller snapped as Orville was demonstrating an improved version of the Flyer, causing a crash that broke four of his ribs....
