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How AI Applications Are Triggering A Renaissance in Legacy Mainframe Data
Everyone is familiar with the promise of AI and machine learning. Like a human, these intelligent systems are supposed to be trainable through formal means, and also able to learn by deriving meaning from data that is presented to them. Of course, that’s the theory....
Basics of VSAM
This article will take you inside VSAM and explain the environment of Virtual Storage Access Method. VSAM has been around since the 1970s and provides a way of storing large amounts of data for 3 types of access. Random Sequential Skip Sequential VSAM has a number of...
Strengthening your network cryptographic posture with zERT
Network security is not a new topic for IT practitioners, but always a hot one. Data breaches can be devastating to business both operationally and financially. However, the cybersecurity landscape never stands still. Each day attackers invent new ways to probe...
Ill winds: Why Mainframe Security Should be Heading Your 2021 Priorities List
It’s an ill wind that blows no good, and profits nobody. That old nautical phrase popped into my head when I first heard about the SolarWinds supply chain compromise. We’ll return to that later, and its implications. But first I wanted to take a look at a few of the...
Your journey to AIOps includes IBM Z
The challenges of a digital business At the heart of today’s digital business is the quality of the experience it delivers to customers, partners and employees. But today, delivering the level of service your customers have come to expect is more complicated. In the...
Accelerating Your Db2 Database
Your Db2 database The IBM mainframe and its Db2 database is the transaction processing workhorse for the world’s biggest banks, insurers and financial services companies. It was designed to execute their high-intensity transaction processing workloads very...
Zero Trust Architecture Mobilizes Organizations to Safeguard Mainframe
Tried and true, the mainframe is here to stay as the backbone of our digital economy. Even as we advance to include new storage systems, all of our data exists on a mainframe somewhere. In fact, by 2030, there will be 40 trillion mobile transactions per day and the...
Mainframe News Out There
Once a month (or so) we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this month’s picks: Planet Db2 The resurrected Planet Db2 blog is chugging along just fine, with new articles...
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How AI Applications Are Triggering A Renaissance in Legacy Mainframe Data
Everyone is familiar with the promise of AI and machine learning. Like a human, these intelligent systems are supposed to be trainable through formal means, and also able to learn by deriving meaning from data that is presented to them. Of course, that’s the theory....
Basics of VSAM
This article will take you inside VSAM and explain the environment of Virtual Storage Access Method. VSAM has been around since the 1970s and provides a way of storing large amounts of data for 3 types of access. Random Sequential Skip Sequential VSAM has a number of...
Strengthening your network cryptographic posture with zERT
Network security is not a new topic for IT practitioners, but always a hot one. Data breaches can be devastating to business both operationally and financially. However, the cybersecurity landscape never stands still. Each day attackers invent new ways to probe...
Ill winds: Why Mainframe Security Should be Heading Your 2021 Priorities List
It’s an ill wind that blows no good, and profits nobody. That old nautical phrase popped into my head when I first heard about the SolarWinds supply chain compromise. We’ll return to that later, and its implications. But first I wanted to take a look at a few of the...
Your journey to AIOps includes IBM Z
The challenges of a digital business At the heart of today’s digital business is the quality of the experience it delivers to customers, partners and employees. But today, delivering the level of service your customers have come to expect is more complicated. In the...
Accelerating Your Db2 Database
Your Db2 database The IBM mainframe and its Db2 database is the transaction processing workhorse for the world’s biggest banks, insurers and financial services companies. It was designed to execute their high-intensity transaction processing workloads very...
Zero Trust Architecture Mobilizes Organizations to Safeguard Mainframe
Tried and true, the mainframe is here to stay as the backbone of our digital economy. Even as we advance to include new storage systems, all of our data exists on a mainframe somewhere. In fact, by 2030, there will be 40 trillion mobile transactions per day and the...
Mainframe News Out There
Once a month (or so) we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this month’s picks: Planet Db2 The resurrected Planet Db2 blog is chugging along just fine, with new articles...
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Mainframe Trailblazer Trivia Part 2
This month at Planet Mainframe the focus is on Talent and Training, so here at Trivia Challenge we’re testing (and hopefully expanding) your knowledge of a few mainframe trailblazers. Today we’re looking at the life of Thomas J. Watson Jr., the transformational...
Mainframe News – January 11, 2024
Kyndryl announces new DVLA mainframe services contract The UK’s Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has announced a new two-year contract with IT infrastructure services provider Kyndryl. Valued at £6.45 million ($8.21 million), the contract follows a previous...
Mainframe Trailblazer Trivia
This month at Planet Mainframe the focus is on Talent and Training, so here at Trivia Challenge we’re going to test your knowledge of a few mainframe trailblazers. The first person we’re looking at is the formidable Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. Born in 1906, Hopper’s...
Mainframe News to Close Out the Year
Broadcom Completes Acquisition of VMware, Moves to Subscription Model Having completed its acquisition of VMware, Inc, Broadcom Inc., a provider of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, is moving forward with plans to enable enterprise customers to...
Evolution of the Mainframe
In 2023, the mainframe is the central technology of the biggest businesses on earth, but they also have a long and storied history. They’ve been around long enough, in fact, to have had a cameo appearance in the show Mad Men (shout out to the IBM/360). But...
Mainframe News This Month
VirtualZ Computing Raises $4.9 Million to Enable Enterprise Innovation With Mainframe Data VirtualZ Computing, the only woman-founded mainframe company, has announced $2.2 million in seed financing, bringing the total capital raised to $4.9 million. The capital...