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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...
Overwhelmed with Data? Empower Your IT Teams with a Smarter Observability Solution
Broadcom just introduced the WatchTower Platform™ — a mainframe observability solution that empowers enterprise customers to transition mainframe operations from reactive recovery to proactive avoidance while enhancing the visibility of mainframes in enterprise...
IBM watsonX makes it Easier and Cheaper to rewrite Code
Artificial Intelligence (AI) aims to empower computers, or computer-controlled robots, to perform tasks that are usually performed by humans, imitating the human ability to solve problems and make decisions. This goal is now achievable—in part—thanks to a combination...
Top 10 Findings from the 2024 Mainframe User Survey
The Arcati Mainframe survey is one of the few out there (perhaps the only one?) that is vendor-neutral; that is, not commissioned by a major mainframe vendor, or a major “mainframe replacement” vendor. This fact alone illustrates the value of this survey, which have...
Log-On Software Relaunches Support for Multiple IBM Solutions
Bedford, NH, February 29, 2024 – Log-On Software, a trusted industry leader in the mainframe solution space and provider of world-class z System solutions, announced renewed support for multiple IBM z System solutions. This development marks a significant...
Arcati Mainframe Yearbook Trivia
The 2024 Arcati Mainframe User Survey has landed, and this year marks the first year for the survey in its new home on the Planet Mainframe website. The survey offers a point-in-time look at organizations’ existing mainframe hardware and software configurations, with...
Micro-segmentation Keeps Sensitive Mainframe Data in Compliance
Executive Summary Mainframes hold an organization’s most critical and sensitive business data, making it crucial to ensure that data is secure and meets the strictest privacy regulations. Controlling access through network micro-segmentation is an effective way to...
Whitepaper – Micro-segmentation Keeps Sensitive Mainframe Data in Compliance
Mainframes hold an organization’s most critical and sensitive business data, making it crucial to ensure that data is secure and meets the strictest privacy regulations. Controlling access through network micro-segmentation is an effective way to protect sensitive...
Podcast: Mainframe Talent Pools with Darren Surch
In this podcast episode, Darren Surch, the CEO of Interskill Learning and a Lifetime IBM Champion, discusses the concept and implementation of internal mainframe talent pools in the IT industry. Darren recently published an article on the subject and its potential to...
Ransomware Attacks and your Health
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more common place, and many people have used things like ChatGPT, a popular generative AI (GenAI) that can answer questions, write essays and poems, or summarize a book. However, like most things, AI can also be turned to the...
