(How to best defend yourself from the tidal wave of new Regulations.) Regulatory Alphabet Soup The veritable tidal wave of recent regulations – most notably those emanating from Europe and the EU – are taking effect almost immediately. This will require urgent action...
Data volume and higher transaction velocities associated with modern applications are driving change in organizations across all industries. This has occurred for many reasons. Customer and end-user expectations for interacting with computerized systems have...
Once a month we like to pick articles from other blogs that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this week’s picks: 9 Challenges Slowing Blockchain Deployment Very interesting article by Cynthia Harvey in a recent edition...
A summary of what you (and your Third-Parties) need to do. On April 27, 2016, the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, and the European Commission approved a new regulatory framework for personal data that will take effect on May 25, 2018. Intended...
Mainframes come with plenty of security – why should they use a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), when it doesn’t even run on the mainframe? This is pretty much the opening argument from most mainframers when talking about SIEMs, and, at first glance,...
(Forget about the Drugs and Rock & Roll… it’s all about the SECS.) Blockchain technology could change the world as we know it, or so the hype would have us believe. Is blockchain technology really all that it’s hyped up to be? Let’s compare the traditional...
Betty White rocks. I mean, she hosted Saturday Night Live—and won an Emmy for it—at the age of 88. At 93, she is still winning awards for shows like Hot in Cleveland and Off Their Rockers, where she is also executive producer. McKinsey apparently thinks Betty White...
The ancient datacenter game of tug-of-war between the need for more computing power, and the need to more closely control ongoing IT costs is never-ending, and continues, as intensely as ever, in today’s large business datacenters. And with the mainframe enclosed...
There are a countless number of articles on the subject of mainframe computing, and whether or not you should stay with it or replace it with a “more modern” technology. As you can probably well imagine, most vendors that are mainframe-specific will recommend that...
IT security crises are forever making business headlines. In 2017 it was the high profile ransomware attacks and huge data breaches such as Equifax. Barely a week into 2018 and we had the revelations surrounding the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities affecting...
