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Cultivating the Next Generation: The Mainframe Vitality Program
Written by: Dave Bond, Mainframe Vitality Program Leader In today’s tech landscape, few things remain as steadfast as the mainframe—a cornerstone of enterprise computing. At Broadcom, we understand that the key to maintaining this vital technology lies in the hands of...
z/OS Application Developers Trivia
Broadcom has released some highlights from its recently conducted survey of z/OS application developers. Conducted by Forrester Consulting in June 2024, the survey “gives an unfiltered voice to enterprise developers of z/OS-based applications across organizations,...
Planet Mainframe at SHARE Kansas City
The Planet Mainframe team attended the SHARE conference in Kansas City. This year’s event was a whirlwind of insightful conversations, networking opportunities, and exciting announcements that will shape the future of the mainframe community. The connections made at...
Zinnov Award Winner, Mainframe Skills Certificates, and GSE UK Sponsorship Opportunities
BMC Software Wins Zinnov Award BMC has announced that it has won the Zinnov award in the Champions in Unlocking Center Value (Enterprise IT) category. The Zinnov Awards are the longest-running GCC awards that honor and celebrate incredible contributions from...
Understanding Downtime – Quantifying the Impact of Mainframe Outages and the Value of Observability
No matter what your business is, chances are good that at least part of it is completed online. Whether that is records management, payroll, or customer purchases, the online portion of your business is most likely a very critical component of overall success. That is...
A wild ride: mainframes, motorcycles and me
As a teenager, I fell in love with mainframes and motorcycles. In the latter case, to be more precise, with classic Kawasaki bikes of the 1970s and 80s. And for me, there are important crossovers. The first point is that I love building and fixing things. The...
What You Said – (ClownStrike) CloudStrike
According to The Guardian, the Crowdstrike outage crashed an estimated 1% of all Windows PCs worldwide—or about 8.5 million—and is estimated to have cost the US Fortune 500 USD $5 billion. We asked you, Planet Mainframe readers, to share your thoughts on the...
Top 5 Reasons Mainframers Have a Promising Future
We’ve all heard the saying “if it ain't broke, don’t fix it”. While this rings true in the practical sense, it also is a direct reflection of the dynamic some organizations are finding themselves in regarding internal mainframe talent. Commonly, the emphasis pivots to...
The Two Facets of AI Sustainability: Better Infrastructure and More Environmental Responsibility
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field of computer systems designed to simulate human thought or part of it, with the latest generation of products, such as ChatGPT, drawing from vast web content, processing responses, and training themselves to respond more...
Future Trends and Innovation Trivia
This month at Planet Mainframe, the topic of AI has been front and center. So far, our trivia quizzes have looked at AI’s role in cybersecurity, compliance, and optimization. Today, we focus on the big topic of future trends and innovation. The intersection of AI and...
