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Mainframe – the dinosaur on the cutting edge
There was a time, quite a while ago now, when there were serious IT executives announcing that the mainframe was obsolete, overpriced technology and that its days were numbered. It was a dinosaur. But these folks weren’t well informed, and perhaps had certain biases...
My mind is getting cloudy…
I'm sitting in a big Dallas hotel with hundreds of other attendees at a "Microsoft Cloud Roadshow" event. This is not a "C-Suite" event; I've been the only CIO at the table each time. No, these are programming managers, security officers, infrastructure geeks. I've...
Getting off that mainframe – or maybe not!
Historically, IT organizations have abandoned the mainframe platform for cost reasons. It's a fact, and there's no getting around that; it's true. Now whether that makes sense or not is another matter. Howard Rubin has mentioned that 68% of production workloads is...
Consider Capping to Control Costs
Reducing or eliminating costs is an important goal for every IT department. Each decision regarding your computer resources must be weighed not only on the value that they can deliver to your organization, but upon their cost to procure, implement, and maintain. And,...
