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A Global Movement: The Numbers Behind the 2026 Influential Mainframers
The mainframe is often referred to as the "backbone of the global economy". Although that’s true, the mainframe is more than a tired phrase. Its true strength lies in the diverse, global community of experts who push the platform forward. This year, the 2026...
Scott Brod: Proving the Mainframe is a Modern, High-Performance Engine
Scott Brod Product ManagerBroadcom Port Monmouth, NJ, USAThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.In the world of enterprise computing, "legacy" is often used as a polite synonym for "outdated." But for Scott Brod, a Product...
Making Performance Visible: Scott Chapman’s Relentless Pursuit of Mainframe Clarity
Scott Chapman Chief Information Officer, Director of Software Design and DevelopmentEnterprise Performance Strategies, Inc. Galena, Ohio, United StatesThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.For Scott Chapman, performance is not...
New Analyst Report Offers Emerging Modernization Insight
Mainframe Insight Matters IT evolution is moving at such a pace that our collective fear of missing out is a genuine concern. As AI hits the mainstream, no organization is exempt, and no legacy technology is off limits. Mainframe modernization and AI have been...
Bridging Generations of Talent: Sujit Neb’s Work to Make Mainframe Skills Scalable
Sujit Neb Lead Automation EngineerBMC Software Pune, Maharashtra, IndiaThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.Across more than 14 years in the mainframe space, Neb has focused on a challenge that continues to shape the future of...
Introducing IBM’s New SQL Tool, Virtel 4.64 now Available, and more
Bringing AI to Mainframe Data: Introducing IBM SQL Data Insights Pro Virtel 4.64 Now Available: Stronger Session Security, Enhanced Japanese Codepage Support, and Key Usability Improvements BMC Advances Trusted AI Orchestration With New Control-M Kyndryl awarded a...
Bringing Mainframe Security Into the Spotlight: Kev Milne’s Mission
Kev Milne Instructor - CTI ManagerNeuro Training Ltd Edinburgh, Scotland, United KingdomThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.The mainframe still powers a vast portion of the world’s critical infrastructure—financial systems,...
Richelle Anne Craw: Open Source, Advocacy, and the Next-Gen Mainframe
Richelle Anne Craw Software EngineerBeta Systems Software Linz, AustriaThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.Richelle Anne Craw is the ultimate "multi-hyphenate" influencer: speaker, instructor, mentor, podcaster, and coder....
Opening Access Through Innovation: Emma Skovgård’s Approach to Mainframe Security and Learning
Emma Skovgård IT Security Engineer, Danske BankFounder, dinoframe.io Copenhagen, DenmarkThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.For Emma Skovgård, the path into the mainframe ecosystem has been anything but traditional, but that...
Saurabh Banerjee: Scaling Mainframe Modernization with WhatsApp
Saurabh Banerjee Senior Manager, Mainframe Innovation and EngineeringEnsono Pune Division, Maharashtra, IndiaThis piece is part of the 2026 Planet Mainframe Influential Mainframers series.Engineering a Human-Centric Mainframe Modernization In today’s parlance,...
