by Planet Mainframe | Feb 19, 2026 | Arcati Navigator
AI as an Integration Catalyst Across the 2026 Arcati Mainframe User Survey, AI is not described as a force that displaces the mainframe. Instead, respondents most frequently associate AI adoption with expanded hybrid integration. When asked how AI will impact IBM Z...
by Sonja Soderlund | Nov 28, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Trivia
November at Planet Mainframe is all about AI, and you don’t need us to tell you that artificial intelligence has now been integrated into many of our daily routines. But long before AI became a household term, IBM was shaping the foundations of this increasingly...
by Sonja Soderlund | Nov 10, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Trivia
At Planet Mainframe, we’re spending the month of November focusing on AI and the mainframe. Once viewed as separate worlds, AI and IBM Z now work hand in hand to deliver real-time insights, predictive analytics, and intelligent automation across enterprise-scale...
by Alessandro Bruno | Nov 24, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence
In the last 2,500 years human civilization has made great strides; and in merely the last 80 of these, technology has advanced to the point where machines, endowed with artificial intelligence, are causing mankind to question its very role on the planet. Nevertheless,...
by Alessandro Bruno | Apr 14, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence
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...
by Alessandro Bruno | Dec 28, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence
Computer science can – and otherwise should – be interpreted as a continuation of philosophy by other means. Why? Computer science and its evolution into artificial intelligence are raising existential questions. Not just about technology but about human nature...
by Peter Enrico | Nov 5, 2025 | AIOps, Artificial Intelligence, Capacity, Featured, Performance
It is exciting to be part of the world of computer performance at the dawn of AI. Many companies are heavily investing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) with only a few crude implementations having materialized thus far. As a performance guy, I can say it is important...
by Peter Enrico | Jan 21, 2025 | Mainframe, Performance
Enterprise Performance Strategies, Inc. (EPS) has a long and deep history with all things mainframe performance and capacity planning. EPS experts have worked extensively in z/OS design, development, and measurement architecture, as well as having worked with hundreds...
by Gil Peleg | Mar 13, 2026 | AI & Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Technology
AI for the Mainframe: Turning System Data Into Answers For the past year, nearly every conversation about artificial intelligence and the mainframe has centered on one question: What will AI do to COBOL? Will it modernize legacy applications? Generate new programs?...
by Planet Mainframe | Feb 19, 2026 | Arcati Navigator
Purpose: How organizations justify investment In the 2026 Arcati Mainframe User Survey, economic considerations appear to be a boundary condition rather than a primary driver of platform change. Cost influences timing and scope, but it does not dominate strategy...
by Planet Mainframe | Feb 18, 2026
Welcome to the Arcati Mainframe Navigator 2026 Read the Arcati 2026 Edition Here Strategic Research Partnership Read the Individual Sections Profile of Respondents Business Dependence and Centrality Platform Scale, Capacity, and Trajectory Platform Currency &...
by Amanda Hendley | Feb 16, 2026
21CS Product/Service Information:Product families developed by 21CS experts lie in the areas of data and storage management, resiliency, analytics, and system and operational tools. Since 1992, 21CS has been developing solutions for foundational disk and tape...
by Amanda Hendley | Feb 5, 2026 | CICS, Video
Artificial intelligence (AI)is no longer something CICS teams discuss in the abstract. In a recent Planet Mainframe CICS Virtual User Group, the AI conversation focused on three points: What is already available? What is already running in production? How is AI being...
by Penney Berryman | Jan 14, 2026 | careers, Workforce & Training
Career resilience in the mainframe world sounds like jargon—until change hits. Reorgs, new technologies, leadership shifts, or surprise opportunities don’t reward the fastest scramblers. They reward the people who were already ready. That’s the core idea Darren Surch,...
