Sub-capacity Pricing and Capping 101
Soft capping, using IBM’s Defined Capacity (DC) or Group Capacity (GC) options, is an effective method to help control software…
Mainframes and the Cloud: Made for Each Other
April 2018 marked the 54th anniversary of IBM’s mainframes. It is uncertain if anyone could have ever predicted such a…
IT Infrastructure Transparency Vital to the Modern Enterprise
Today’s modern data centers are composed of many different systems that works both independently and in conjunction with one another…
I welcome our new machine overlords
It’s been a while since my last overly alarmist IT security rant, and with the holiday season just past—when millions…
Monitoring your service providers
Outsourcing has been the rage for years now, and the outsourcing of computing resources to the cloud leads the way.…
Mainframe mobile challenges and solutions
The need for modern mobile solutions for mainframe data centers Today most CIOs, CTOs and IT experts are aware of…
Improving the Bank’s Bottom Line: Reducing Cost per Transaction
A few years ago, I invited a group of CIOs to become an Advisory Board for my company. Their role…
Mainframe news out there – July
Once a month we like to pick articles from other blogs that we feel are interesting enough to talk about…