Cyber Security Month

Time to Rethink Db2 Disaster Recovery

Time to Rethink Db2 Disaster Recovery

For a long time, disaster recovery (DR) in Db2 z/OS environments was mostly about getting systems back online after a major outage. Whether it was a hardware failure, a data center problem, or a natural disaster, the focus was on full system recovery, bringing the...

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Db2 Workload Performance on Fire
Surveys, security and spaghetti

Surveys, security and spaghetti

Mark Wilson reflects on the findings of a recent mainframe survey, explaining why security should be the number one priority, and why we need to start talking about complexity and observability. I read with interest the highlights of the Arcati Mainframe survey 2024,...

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Ransomware Attacks and your Health

Ransomware Attacks and your Health

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more common place, and many people have used things like ChatGPT, a popular generative AI (GenAI) that can answer questions, write essays and poems, or summarize a book. However, like most things, AI can also be turned to the...

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A CISO Profile

A CISO Profile

For those who have grown up with the internet, it’s probably hard to imagine a time when cyberattacks did not loom as an existential threat to organizations.  But the role of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is a fairly recent invention, coming into...

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Mainframe Firsts

Mainframe Firsts

Mainframes have a reputation for being rock-solid, reliable…and maybe a little mysterious (to outsiders at least). But behind the green screens and acronyms lies a rich history of innovation that has shaped the modern computing world.  From groundbreaking hardware...

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Announcements at SHARE, Job-Ready Talent training, and more

Announcements at SHARE, Job-Ready Talent training, and more

IBM and Arivonix Announce Deep watsonx.ai Integration at SHARE Cleveland YUPRO Placement and Franklin Skills Launch SKILLSFIT™ to Deliver Job-Ready IT Talent, Filling Urgent Gaps Hitachi Vantara Recognized by GigaOm for Innovation in Object Storage Royal Cyber Unveils...

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A Decade in Purple Chucks: Celebrating Planet Mainframe

A Decade in Purple Chucks: Celebrating Planet Mainframe

When a group of mainframers started a part-time mainframe blog 10 years ago, they never imagined it would become a leading website for mainframe industry news. For over a decade, we’ve shared ideas, explored new innovations, and highlighted the people shaping the...

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Mainframes and Their Rivals

Mainframes and Their Rivals

For decades, mainframes have stood quietly at the heart of global enterprise computing, but they haven’t been without competition. From the rise of minicomputers to the spread of UNIX systems and the open-source movement, each wave of innovation has challenged the...

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