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Planet Mainframe and iTech-Ed Ltd. Announce Collaboration on Mainframe User Groups
A marketing partnership expanding access and resources for the mainframe community. [Nashville, TN, USA] — May 31 2023 — EIN Presswire - Planet Mainframe and iTech-Ed Ltd. are pleased to announce a new collaboration supporting mainframe education and community. The...
The Importance of Advocacy in Building a zSystems Career
Each month, z/Action! meets some of the world’s most innovative companies as they share how they’re expanding horizons and driving success with IBM zSystems. This month we welcome Mainline Information Systems’ Dusty Rivers. He’s Mainline’s senior director for zSystems...
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...
It’s A Good Day For Mainframe Trivia!
Planet Mainframe is here to support your ongoing mainframe training (try saying that five times fast), and our trivia quiz this week is based on two articles that explore the topics of indexing and the basics of Virtual Storage Access Method. To jump right...
Technology Investment Approaches For Top Performing Companies
This episode of The Main Scoop brings forward a new perspective on the efficacy of enterprise technology investments from studying the IT portfolio and performance profiles of over 2,000 organizations. Joining Greg and Daniel is Dr. Howard Rubin, founder of Rubin...
