Business Intelligence – you either have it or you don’t…
Definition of Business: …the practice of making one’s living by engaging in commerce… Definition of Intelligence: …the ability to acquire…
Mainframe optimization on the high seas
Being in the mainframe business for about 10 years now, I hear interesting anecdotes from time to time, often from…
Banking Trends and IT Issues
Digital transformation is impacting businesses far and wide, but you could argue that none are being impacted more dramatically than…
Cost vs Performance: an endless battle?
Several techniques to move the needle For some reason, technology experts are regularly claiming the end of the mainframe. When…
Mainframes are used increasingly by major banks and financial institutions
Do you think the mainframe is dead? A dinosaur, an ancient piece of technology that has outlived its usefulness like…
Data Centers, Mainframes and the rest!
When compared to an x86/distributed server environment, the operational costs of the power consumption versus IBM’s Mainframe z Systems are…
Bringing DevOps to your mainframe
The days of waterfall software development on a mainframe are coming to an end. It’s no longer tolerable for end…
The Third Platform and the Mainframe
The Third Platform is defined as the interdependencies between mobile computing, social media, cloud computing, and information/analytics (big data), and…