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Influential Mainframer – Geoffrey Decker
Today, we introduce someone whose mission includes music, mainframes, and mentorship. Geoffrey Decker Co-Founder and Instructor, Eli Madison Memorial Apprenticeship (EMMA)Instructor, Northern Illinois University, Dept. of Computer Science Chicago, Illinois, USA...
Influential Mainframer – Gareth Copplestone-Jones
Today, meet a man who is engineering mainframe resilience. Gareth Copplestone-Jones Head of Infrastructure Services, Triton Consulting Ltd England, United Kingdom Connect with Gareth on LinkedIn: View the entire 2025 Influential Mainframers group here. With nearly...
Trivia For A Mainframe Expert. Are You One?
When the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook hits the inboxes of mainframe devotees globally, it offers a chance to look back – and forward – on the ever-evolving world of Big Iron. According to Trevor Eddolls, the yearbook’s editorial director, this free resource has...
Explaining Mainframe Pricing to the Cloud Guys
In these days of hybrid cloud working with some applications working best in a cloud environment and some that work best on the mainframe, there’s going to come a time when mainframers and cloud people are going to be sitting in the same room and the way computing is...
Beyond Code: How Mainframes Fight Shrinking Specialization
It’s easily agreeable: From households across the globe, to enterprise organizations, saving money is top of mind. However, putting principles into practice to make this actionable can sometimes feel daunting. It doesn’t have to be. In the case of enterprises,...
DXC Technology Migrates Lloyd’s of London’s Data Center Over A Weekend
Moving a data center from one location to another is always an intimidating - even hair-raising - proposition. But when it’s the world's leading insurance market that needs to move its data center to a new, modern facility, the project takes on epic proportions....
Microchip Technology and Quantum Computing Face Off Against the New Geopolitical Reality
In 2022, physicists Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger (and posthumously John Bell, who came up with the concept in the 1960s) collect their Nobel Prize for physics thanks to their groundbreaking work on quantum entanglement as a clever scientific...
Leading Businesses Boast a Growing Mix of Cloud and Mainframe
By: Michael Dickson Spending on technology continues climbing to new heights, now approaching $8 trillion annually. By all accounts, it’s one of the largest and most significant investments businesses make, accounting for up to 30% of an individual company’s annual...
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People and History of the Mainframe Trivia
This month at Planet Mainframe, we’re looking at the people and history of the mainframe. If you’re not a mainframer, that may not sound particularly titillating—but it’s a story of innovation, evolution, and resilience. Originating in the mid-20th century,...
Upcoming Career Fair and Women in Tech
Virtual IBM Z Career Fairs in April If you’re looking for work in a mainframe role, make sure to register for your local upcoming IBM Z Computing Career Fair, sponsored by IBM in partnership with CareerEco. Candidates will have the opportunity to meet with...
Hybrid Cloud Trivia
You don’t have to know much about mainframes to understand that they don’t exist in the splendid isolation of the past, and the last decade has brought the mainframe into a whole new level of connectivity. For many businesses, embracing the modern mainframe...
Today’s News – IBM Skills Council and Advancements with watsonx
Conversation with IBM’s Meredith Stowell: IBM Mainframe Skills Council At this week’s SHARE conference in Orlando, IBM announced the launch of the Mainframe Skills Council— “a forum where global organizations will foster a skilled, diverse, sustainable workforce...
Next Gen Tech Trivia
This month at Planet Mainframe, the focus is on Next Gen Tech. When it comes to mainframes or even whatever handheld device you find yourself attached to, artificial intelligence is probably the first thing that comes to most of our minds when we think of the cutting...
Cyber Threat Reports, Pragmatic Modernization, and 60 Years of Mainframe
IBM Cyber Threat Index Report: Stolen Credentials Top Risk, Threat of AI Attacks Continue to Loom Every year, IBM X-Force (IBM Consulting’s offensive and defensive security services arm) releases a report that surveys the cyber threat landscape and reports on emerging...