According to The Guardian, the Crowdstrike outage crashed an estimated 1% of all Windows PCs worldwide—or about 8.5 million—and is estimated to have cost the US Fortune 500 USD $5 billion. We asked you, Planet Mainframe readers, to share your thoughts on the...
During SHARE Kansas City, we nabbed two of Vanguard Integrity Professionals' finest for a conversation. Hear from Milt Rosberg, Vice President, Global Sales, Marketing and Business Development, and Brian Marshall, Chief Strategist. Watch this duo to see who...
As summer 2024 heated up, so did the conversations on Planet Mainframe. The most-read blog articles of the season weren’t puff pieces—they resonated deeply with the community. So, what made these pieces stand out? Let’s explore the common themes and why they captured...
If you’re looking for a staunch defender of the mainframe and its role in the global economy, look no further than Peter Enrico, President of Enterprise Performance Strategies, Inc. Planet Mainframe caught up with Enrico at SHARE Kansas City. “Mainframes have been...
If you’re searching for a dynamic duo to offer real talk about the mainframe, look no further than Jeremy Hamilton, Field CTO, North America, and Anthony (Tony) Anter, DevOps Architect and Evangelists, both from BMC Software. Planet Mainframe sat down at SHARE...
October is cybersecurity awareness month, and Planet Mainframe is kicking it off with interview insights from Mark Wilson, Technical Director at mainframe services company Vertali and Conference Manager for GSE UK. "Is the mainframe secure? No. But it is...
When you first meet Frank Kyne, you’ll ask to be forgiven for parroting back “Kind.” While you’d be wrong about the spelling, you’d be right about Frank’s personality. Next, you might notice his accent - it’s clearly Irish. Except that he was born in the Bronx, New...
Derek Britton is one of COBOL’s biggest advocates, a one-man PR agency for the 65-year-old language that “suffers from an existential challenge.” We caught up with him at SHARE Kansas City to talk COBOL, AI, and the future of mainframes.From his perspective, COBOL is...
Amanda Hendley’s career is rooted in a combination of leadership and deep curiosity about technology. A graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology with a BS in Management, Amanda spent years in leadership roles within nonprofits and membership organizations in...
As the mainframe community moves toward more agile, DevOps-driven practices, the question isn’t whether to adopt modern tools—it’s how to integrate them effectively.Git, a distributed version control system, has emerged as the de facto standard for managing source...
