January is Talent and Training month at Planet Mainframe, so here at Trivia Challenge we’re testing (and hopefully expanding) your knowledge of a few mainframe trailblazers. This week the spotlight is on Gene Amdahl. Born in South Dakota in 1922 and educated in a...
What people want in a career has remained fundamentally unchanged for the last 50 years. In a Gallup poll of workforce trends, pay remains the number one consideration. Additionally, people want work-life balance, job stability, interesting work, and opportunities for...
My career in tech was inspired by playing video games. Some of my earliest memories involve playing games like Roller Coaster Tycoon on Windows ‘95, and Pokémon Yellow on the Game Boy Color. As I was fascinated by video games and wanted to learn how they were created,...
Written by: Tammy Faucher Our team at Broadcom takes immense pride in collaborating with our exceptional customers and partners to overcome some of the most challenging obstacles in IT. Tangible examples of this are the annual Mainframe Technical Exchanges (MTEs)....
CVS, Legal & General, Fidelity Investments Selected as 2024 IMPACT Innovation Award Finalists The 2024 CMG IMPACT conference will take place in Atlanta, GA in February, and - along with education and peer-to-peer exchange of all things digital transformation,...
The first mainframe computer was invented almost one hundred years ago, in the late 1930s, when a Harvard University researcher needed help solving a series of equations. Since then, mainframes have consistently been an undeniable resource to organizations and...
Written by: John Benbow In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses crave storage solutions that offer efficiency, cost savings, and data integrity. CA 1 Flexible Storage, available with the licensing of CA 1 Tape Management, has...
This month at Planet Mainframe the focus is on Talent and Training, so here at Trivia Challenge we’re testing (and hopefully expanding) your knowledge of a few mainframe trailblazers. Today we’re looking at the life of Thomas J. Watson Jr., the transformational...
Modern mainframe organizations recognize the persistent shortage of external, mainframe-skilled personnel and ensure long-term mainframe workforce vitality and efficacy by building internal mainframe talent pools. The synergy of workforce succession planning,...
The news that IBM’s Galasa software testing tool has been welcomed by the open mainframe project is extremely positive for the mainframe software testing community. As Macro 4 is an early adopter of Galasa, I’m able to shed light on the experience of using it, the...
