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Complexities for the Mainframe CIO in Today’s IT Landscape
The Modern Challenge to Run, Grow and Transform Business As the role relates to business, the Chief Information Officer (CIO) is a fairly modern position—adding to the growing stable of C-level executive job titles—that has been created through necessity as IT...
Part I: The four hallmarks of an effective CIO
Self-driving cars; thermostats that learn your habits; expert systems that help diagnose and treat cancer; smartphones replacing credit cards…and on and on! Technology is becoming more and more important to organizations, no matter what they make or do. Which means an...
The Evolving Mainframe Landscape
Most of us acknowledge the fact that the mainframe will be around for a very long time. There are too many companies whose core business relies on the power and resiliency that the mainframe provides for their mission critical applications. It just makes sense to...
The DB2 Performance Advisor – What is Performance
Assuring optimal application and system performance is one of the most important goals of IT professionals. And for DB2 developers and DBAs, tuning and monitoring are often daily tasks. But there are many factors involved in DB2 optimization and performance monitoring...
ReBoot Hill Revisited
Once upon a time, a website existed that recorded some of the most spectacularly failed mainframe migration projects. Of interest to all mainframe type people, I’m sure that it saw a lot of traffic; a Google search on ReBoot Hill yields the website, but it no longer...
Big Data and Gardening
You can be a botanist, a horticulturist or a gardener—it depends on how knowledgeable you want to be about what you are growing. But what’s that got to do with Big Data? Well, I was recently having a conversation with Matt Ritter from Athena Health about Big Data,...
Automated SQL Quality Assurance
To leverage available skill sets and to save on costs, many large IT organizations have been moving their DB2 development efforts to off-platform programmers. These programmers are not mainframe developers, and may not even have mainframe logon accounts. They write...
Starting Small with Big Data
I recently read an excellent IBM paper on best practices for achieving line-of-business (LOB) performance increases through enterprise data analytics. This is an impressive and convincing piece on how top-down planning at the enterprise level can enable positive...
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Trivia For A Mainframe Expert. Are You One?
When the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook hits the inboxes of mainframe devotees globally, it offers a chance to look back – and forward – on the ever-evolving world of Big Iron. According to Trevor Eddolls, the yearbook’s editorial director, this free resource has...
DXC Technology Migrates Lloyd’s of London’s Data Center Over A Weekend
Moving a data center from one location to another is always an intimidating - even hair-raising - proposition. But when it’s the world's leading insurance market that needs to move its data center to a new, modern facility, the project takes on epic proportions....
It’s A Good Day For Mainframe Trivia!
Planet Mainframe is here to support your ongoing mainframe training (try saying that five times fast), and our trivia quiz this week is based on two articles that explore the topics of indexing and the basics of Virtual Storage Access Method. To jump right...
Mainframe News We’re Talking About!
IBM mainframe licenses a “value vector” for IBM: CFO Despite the murmurings about the end of the mainframe, IBM’s Q1 earnings made headlines last week by beating EPS expectations. And while Big Blue’s better-than-expected performance can’t be credited to one single...
Who Wants To Be A Mainframe Genius?
Mainframes have been around for more than half a century, and for many businesses, they remain the backbone of their IT operations. However, as technology continues to evolve, many organizations are looking to modernize their mainframes to keep up with changing...
What’s New In Mainframe?
Introducing the new single frame and rack mount configurations of IBM z16 and IBM LinuxOne 4 IBM's Z series might be the industry standard bearers for security and reliability, but for small to medium-sized businesses without a lot of floor space, a full-sized...