Many of you may be thinking why on earth am I even suggesting this? Hybrid cloud computing offers flexibility, fault tolerance, subscription-based cost models, and much more. While that’s all true, it simply does not fit everyone’s business model. Let me explain. Many...
So another year passes and with a myriad of interviews under our belts later, we broadcast live at the Cloud Expo Europe 2017. We had a great line up of guests including ITV, Google, LinkedIn, IBM, Fujitsu, as well as many others. However, this article is not about...
It has been going on for decades on the mainframe The future is about doing it better in multi-platform environments And - in real time Given the meteoric rise in the use of smartphones, the increasing inter-connectivity between what were previously non-connected...
A: Become a Grandmaster at Whack-a-mole! “…used with reference to a situation in which attempts to solve a problem are piecemeal or superficial, resulting only in temporary or minor improvement…” Much (very much!) has been written regarding the security threats posed...
While it may be difficult to credit the sincerity of someone who self-critiques by saying, “I care too much,” there are times when I apply the sentiment to myself. In my 37 years in the IT industry, I have been employed by mainframe software vendors for about half the...
Today’s mainframe systems run the world’s top industries’ mission-critical workloads. This includes large financial institutions like banks, insurance companies, healthcare organizations, utilities, government, military, and a multitude of other public and private...
Yes, mainframes are now on autopilot, not unlike Tesla automobiles! While everyone is chasing the next big, disruptive unicorn like Uber or Airbnb, bright mainframe engineers are quietly disrupting the industry with new customer-driven innovations. If you are into...
Performance management is a key consideration on any platform. A system may have several resources (CPU, I/O, storage, network etc.) that collectively work together to process a workload. To assess overall health of the system, mainframe system reports can be...
Do you know that mainframe systems have several kinds of engines (i.e., processors) not just a Central Processor (CP)? Early mainframes had only one processor – the Central Processing Unit (CPU). As the mainframe industry evolved over the decades, today’s systems...
Yes, we have smartphone apps related to the mainframe. Don’t be surprised. Mainframes are not the old dusty computers that some folks go on about – you know; the ages-old dinosaurs that occupy entire rooms, use card punch input, and require bits and bytes...
