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Mainframe news out there – November 2017
Once a month we like to pick articles from other blogs that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this week’s picks: The Engine of Digital Disruption in the API Economy Very interesting article by Dr. Richard Gamblin in a...
Mainframe Outsourcing Transparency
Outsourced mainframe customers often lack a clear understanding of how well their outsourcer is managing the mainframe capacity and performance relative to what is optimal for the customer. The customer seldom has access to the data needed to really understand their...
Confessions of a 25 year old Mainframer (pt. 1)
Hello, My name is Colton Quillicy. I'm 25, and I'm a mainframer. Yes... I know. A rare breed. I don't know how I got here... a love of technology I guess? I personally blame my upbringing. My father, Scott Quillicy, got a degree in computer science in the early '80s,...
Big Data at true scale!
Big Data is not an overly sized star trek character or endless storage, but is rather the new currency for IT organizations, that can be analyzed, queried and manipulated to provide a meaningful outcome to almost any analytical question. And that currency has been...
What’s next for green screens?
The great thing about green screens is that they are so easy and so quick to use. Basically, a screen appears, you enter some information, press tab, enter some more information, and press enter. It’s quick, it’s simple to use, what’s not to like? And that’s how so...
Open Source on Steroids
The words “digital transformation” are on the lips of every person in technology and tech media, as well as many business leaders – from company CIOs and CTOs to technology to business line managers to writers in news publications and tech blogs. At its core, a...
Mainframe news out there – October 2017
Once a month we like to pick articles from other blogs that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this week’s picks: Linux is Linux but Even More on IBM LinuxONE Very interesting article by Stephen D. Bartlett in a recent...
Blockchain technology and the Mainframe
How to deal with Blockchain in a mainframe environment. Blockchain technology – if you were to believe in some of the hype – could change the world as we know it… Realistically however – and in the right circumstances – Blockchain oriented approaches to effectively...
Augmented Everything: How a CIO can make workers smarter, stronger, more aware
Much has been written recently about the emergence of Artificial Intelligence and robotics technology, and about how these technologies will destroy jobs and wreck society. Someday, maybe. But today and for the next few years—the planning horizon of CIOs rather than...
Mainframe Development Must be the Focus, Not the Brunt, of a Digital Transformation
In a world of extreme and unpredictable change, agility is imperative. That’s why large enterprises have rightfully invested in all kinds of agility-enhancing capabilities—from hybrid cloud to DevOps. Unfortunately, any improvement not made at the constraint is an...
