The consensus is clear and, now, strongly supported by both Forrester and Gartner. Enterprises must bring agility to mainframe development. After all, large enterprises run on mainframe code and mainframe data. So it’s imperative that they be able to nimbly twist that...
There’s a bullet aimed at the heart of your business. That bullet is the lie of Bimodal IT, which asserts that you can let your mainframe languish in Waterfall mode while you focus all your agility efforts elsewhere. It’s tempting to believe the Bimodal IT lie —...
The European version of the IBM zUniversity took place in Munich on June 13-17 this year and it was a first time for me and the rest of Insoft-Infotel team to attend such event. In all there were two Planet Mainframe members to attend this event, both having our...
Business transformation and agility are critical in today’s fast moving world. Clients demand insights faster, more often, and with greater accuracy based on up-to-the-second transactional data that is frequently housed in mainframe systems. The dependency on...
In today’s multi-platform, multi-OS and multi-data format corporate computing environments, there is a high demand to make the mainframe systems work with web, mobile devices and, potentially, any device that can be connected to the Internet-of-Things (IoT), in...
Part 2: Forklifting in a new solution In this first part of this series, we looked at what typical legacy systems look like, and listed 4 ways that they can be modernized. In this post, we’ll take a close look at perhaps one of the most common solutions addressing the...
Part 3: New Online Processing This is Part 3 in this five-part series about how mainframe shops can embrace the needs of new mobile workloads. Last time, we looked at the forklift option: burning the legacy infrastructure to the ground and building it back up again...
Part 4: New Online Processing and Data Storage This is Part 4 of a 5-part series about how mainframe shops can embrace the needs of new mobile workloads. Last time, we looked at a new online processing solution that would replace the existing online processing, but...
Part 5: Create New Interfaces for Existing Assets This is the final installment of a five-part series about how mainframe shops can embrace the needs of new mobile workloads. Last time, we looked at a solution that would replace the existing online processing and add...
The term “Digital Transformation” has been and continues to be mentioned practically everywhere within the industry at the moment. Depending on whom you talk to and why, you will get many different educated answers back on the definition of the term. So from a...
