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Embracing the Challenges of Gaining Value from Analytics
Data volume and higher transaction velocities associated with modern applications are driving change in organizations across all industries. This has occurred for many reasons. Customer and end-user expectations for interacting with computerized systems have...
Mainframe news out there – March
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 week’s picks: 9 Challenges Slowing Blockchain Deployment Very interesting article by Cynthia Harvey in a recent edition...
GDPR – is your firm going to be compliant?
A summary of what you (and your Third-Parties) need to do. On April 27, 2016, the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, and the European Commission approved a new regulatory framework for personal data that will take effect on May 25, 2018. Intended...
Mainframes don’t need SIEMs, do they?
Mainframes come with plenty of security – why should they use a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), when it doesn’t even run on the mainframe? This is pretty much the opening argument from most mainframers when talking about SIEMs, and, at first glance,...
Blockchain technology – the hype versus the reality
(Forget about the Drugs and Rock & Roll… it’s all about the SECS.) Blockchain technology could change the world as we know it, or so the hype would have us believe. Is blockchain technology really all that it’s hyped up to be? Let’s compare the traditional...
Does McKinsey Hate Betty White?
Betty White rocks. I mean, she hosted Saturday Night Live—and won an Emmy for it—at the age of 88. At 93, she is still winning awards for shows like Hot in Cleveland and Off Their Rockers, where she is also executive producer. McKinsey apparently thinks Betty White...
Mainframe batch challenges – and solutions
The ancient datacenter game of tug-of-war between the need for more computing power, and the need to more closely control ongoing IT costs is never-ending, and continues, as intensely as ever, in today’s large business datacenters. And with the mainframe enclosed...
Mainframing in the 2020’s
There are a countless number of articles on the subject of mainframe computing, and whether or not you should stay with it or replace it with a “more modern” technology. As you can probably well imagine, most vendors that are mainframe-specific will recommend that...
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SC Media Honors Rocket Software’s Cynthia Overby for Career in Mainframe Security and more
SC Media Honors Rocket Software’s Cynthia Overby for Career in Mainframe Security SC Media, a publication of the CyberRisk Alliance, has announced its five 2023 Women in IT Security Honorees. Among the five honorees is Rocket Software’s Cynthia Overby, lauded for her...
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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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...
Do you know your mainframe lingo?
Did your computer journey start with dial-up and dot matrix? Perhaps you cut your teeth coding COBOL, or maybe you dream in Rust. Whatever your beginning, both you and technology changed along the way. If you’re not modernizing your mainframe and your skills, you’re...
Hot Topics from SHARE, watsonx, and more
Hot Topics at 68-year old Mainframe Conference: SHARE 2023 This year’s SHARE conference took place in New Orleans between August 13-18. Created in 1955 as a means of learning about and networking within the mainframe space, the conference continues to draw mainframers...
Modernization in the News
IBM z/OS upgrade will deliver mainframe AI services and support IBM has revealed further details about its imminent launch of a major z/OS upgrade, which will feature an infusion of AI. The operating system upgrade introduces AI support via a feature package called...