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I welcome our new machine overlords

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 of IoT devices flooded our homes and offices—I figure what better time to scare the crap out of the general public. But, in this instance, it’s not...

Monitoring your service providers

Monitoring your service providers

Outsourcing has been the rage for years now, and the outsourcing of computing resources to the cloud leads the way. And why not? It allows you to increase efficiency (focus on core business activities instead of running a datacenter), cut costs (you don't have...

Mainframe mobile challenges and solutions

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 the impact of digital transformation (DX) on their respective businesses and IT organizations. Disruptive technologies like Big Data, business analytics,...

Mainframe news out there – July

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 on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this month’s picks: Data Lineage Matters More Than Ever Very interesting article by Denise Kalm in a recent edition of the...

A Brief History of (Mainframe) Time

A Brief History of (Mainframe) Time

Timing, timekeeping, time synchronization, more specifically accurate synchronization, is a key requirement for modern information technology systems.  This is especially true for industries involved in transaction processing such as the financial industry.  As such,...

Validating your files

Validating your files

Mainframe files/datasets are liable to change quite often. After all, people are using those files so they are likely to be modified/updated. So how could you tell whether there had been a legitimate change to the file or it had been hacked? How can you verify that...

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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 […]

Introducing Syncsort™ Storage Management

Recently, Precisely added the Storage Management solutions from DTS Software to our product lineup.  These products represent a significant addition to Precisely’s already robust IBM Z software portfolio. The newly […]

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 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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Db2 Trivia: The Basics

Db2 Trivia: The Basics

While databases may not be the sexiest segment of IT history, they are inarguably the backbone of modern information systems. With that in mind, we’re devoting our trivia challenge this week to the enduring data management technology that is Db2. This massively...

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Kyndryl Signs Agreement with UK Tax Authority and More

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BMC Survey Shows Enterprises Still Value Mainframe BMC released its 18th annual Mainframe Survey this week, highlighting the continued value of Big Iron as a critical core technology platform for many organizations. This year’s survey involved more than 800 executive...

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