Breach recovery – the fast and the furious!
Your organization has had a data breach. You’ve managed to confirm that it’s not a false alarm, it really is…
A Case Study: Measuring the Impact of Db2 for z/OS Buffer Pool Changes
Not long ago, a Db2 for z/OS administrator contacted me with a request. His team had made some changes to…
Mainframe News Out There
Once a month we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk…
Lost in translation? Why mainframers and non-mainframers need to communicate
In today’s connected world and with security high on the agenda, IT people across the enterprise have to understand each…
Getting a Client in Trouble Out of Trouble
Recently, we helped one of our clients – a large investment bank of America – to “find” 30 million dollars…
If It Ain’t Broke…
It was Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget, who made the phrase “If it…
Securing data in transit
One way of looking at mainframe data is that it is either at rest or in transit. Data at rest…
Part II: Six ways to improve datacenter performance while saving on costs
Last week we looked at some of the most common reactions to the need for improved mainframe performance in the…