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DevOps in the multi-platform Data Center

DevOps in the multi-platform Data Center

Positioned by some as the panacea of new-age IT management, promising shorter development times, improved business processes, reduced time to market, more engaged teams, greater business agility, and more, DevOps is all the rage. If you're not doing it, you're doing...

Mainframe Upgrades – They Happen

Mainframe Upgrades – They Happen

System upgrades are a fact of life. If you're running a mainframe system, you're doing it for a good reason—and that’s almost certainly because you need the performance, capacity, throughput and security. Not only that, you're more than likely experiencing growing...

Yes, There Is a Clear Path to Mainframe Agility

Yes, There Is a Clear Path to Mainframe Agility

The consensus is clear and, now, strongly supported by both Forrester and Gartner. Enterprises must bring agility to mainframe development. After all, large enterprises run on mainframe code and mainframe data. So it’s imperative that they be able to nimbly twist that...

Mainframe News Out There

Mainframe News Out There

Once a month 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: 10 Rules for Succeeding as a DBA An interesting article by Planet Mainframe friend Craig Mullins...

The Mainframe’s Place In DevOps

The Mainframe’s Place In DevOps

Read an interesting article a while back on how to pull off a DevOps implementation successfully: 10 ways to win at devops that identified some important ideas requiring attention in any new DevOps implementation. Some are pretty obvious: get buy-in from the C-Suite,...

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Join Scott Chapman in this 4-day z/OS Performance Tuning Essentials Workshop that focuses on the foundational terminology, metrics, and practices necessary to measure, understand, and improve z/OS system performance. Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the factors driving performance and […]

Mainframes by the Numbers

Mainframes by the Numbers

Since you’ve found your way to Planet Mainframe, you probably know that mainframes are the IT workhorses of big business. It’s not an exaggeration to say that it’s hard to even imagine the past several decades of commerce without the mainframe doing its thing, mostly...

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Mainframe News for You

Mainframe News for You

Utah’s Office of Recovery Services Moves from COBOL to Cloud in 18 Months Utah’s Office of Recovery Services (ORS) is responsible for both collecting child support payments across the state and ensuring public funds are used appropriately. For 24 years it has relied...

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History of Cybercrime and Cybersecurity

History of Cybercrime and Cybersecurity

For a long time, mainframes seemed like a safe room where a company’s most precious data possessions would be secure. But while mainframes still present unique challenges to bad actors, the days of mainframe impenetrability are most definitely over. Ever since the...

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Kyndryl Signs Agreement with UK Tax Authority and More

Kyndryl Signs Agreement with UK Tax Authority to Accelerate and De-risk Modernization in Critical Tax Infrastructure Kyndryl, IBM’s managed infrastructure services business spin-off, has signed an agreement to manage a proportion of HMRC’s (His Majesty’s Revenue and...

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Mainframe Security Trivia

Mainframe Security Trivia

For a long time, the perception that mainframes are inherently secure probably made life quite a bit easier for hackers than it really needed to be.  Back in the pre-internet world, corporations could probably afford to treat mainframe security as an...

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