Always On: Achieving continuous availability for non-data sharing workloads in a z/OS Parallel Sysplex
Introduction The z/OS Parallel Sysplex® technology provides a highly reliable, redundant, and robust environment by clustering together multiple z/OS systems…
This November, Vote Yes on the Mainframe
Working on a political campaign back in the day, I consistently found myself assigned to the phone banks. I would…
Analytics and Machine Learning in the Modern Datacenter
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are the latest exciting technologies and buzz in the business and tech worlds,…
Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
Or: We need to talk about mainframe hacking There’s an elephant in the room says Mark Wilson. It’s mainframe-sized, at…
So what Does ‘Mainframe Modernization’ Really Mean?
What is mainframe modernization? Well, a lot of vendors will tell you that it is the replacement of some, or…
Mainframe news out there
Once a month we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk…
9 ways to Master the Z
So you are now working on the mainframe platform. You wanted to keep up with the latest and greatest or…
Do I need real-time, continuous, mainframe security monitoring and auditing?
To be honest, mainframes are pretty secure, aren’t they? We’ve had RACF and other External Security Managers (ESMs) for years.…