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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...
Mainframe News We’re Talking About!
IBM mainframe licenses a “value vector” for IBM: CFO Despite the murmurings about the end of the mainframe, IBM’s Q1 earnings made headlines last week by beating EPS expectations. And while Big Blue’s better-than-expected performance can’t be credited to one single...
The Mainframe: A Look Back at 2022 & What is on the Horizon in 2023
Why focus on the mainframe for a look forward? If you’ve read the rest of the IT-based rhetoric about 2022 and 2023, there is not much talk about the mainframe. This comes as no surprise since in many ways the mainframe is still siloed in many organizations. Even...
Consider Application-Level Lock Control in Db2 13 for z/OS
It has been close to a year since Db2 13 for z/OS has been generally available. It was announced in April 2022 and delivered for GA on May 31, 2022. As you think about migrating from Db2 12 to Db2 13, it is inevitable that you will consider the new functionality and...
Who Wants To Be A Mainframe Genius?
Mainframes have been around for more than half a century, and for many businesses, they remain the backbone of their IT operations. However, as technology continues to evolve, many organizations are looking to modernize their mainframes to keep up with changing...
What’s New In Mainframe?
Introducing the new single frame and rack mount configurations of IBM z16 and IBM LinuxOne 4 IBM's Z series might be the industry standard bearers for security and reliability, but for small to medium-sized businesses without a lot of floor space, a full-sized...
Artificial Intelligence, the Future of Humanity and the Technology that is transforming the World
Federico Faggin, the inventor of the microchip, has been turning his gaze ever more toward and inside the human being. He has said in various interviews, in his native Italy, that his new goal, far more than improving computing capacity, is to teach people, regular...
The Six Degrees of Customer Experience
By: Joe Doria Most of us are familiar with the idea that there are no more than five intermediaries between yourself and another person on this planet. (Hello, Kevin Bacon). It's quite ironic, given there are 8 billion of us and yet this incredible expanse of...
