by Derek Britton | Sep 27, 2024 | COBOL, Mainframe
The Ailments of Age We’ve come to the final installment of our homage to COBOL. Let’s look at the challenges it faces in the future. You do not reach 65 years without having endured some difficult experiences. COBOL bears those scars just as anything else would at...
by Derek Britton | Sep 12, 2024 | COBOL
As COBOL reaches 65 years of loyal service to the IT world, this second piece in a four-part homage attempts to answer how a veteran IT technology has remained successful for so long. In the modern age, enterprise IT has grown in scale and complexity beyond...
by Penney Berryman | Aug 30, 2024 | Announcements, careers, Education, Featured, lessons learned, Mainframe, Observability, resiliency, Talent, Training
As summer 2024 heated up, so did the conversations on Planet Mainframe. The most-read blog articles of the season weren’t puff pieces—they resonated deeply with the community. So, what made these pieces stand out? Let’s explore the common themes and why they captured...
by Trevor Eddolls | Aug 16, 2024 | Financial Regulation, Security
In my last article about ransomware, I mentioned how important it was for chief financial officers (CFOs) to ensure that the IT in their organizations was as secure as possible—particularly now that attacks can come from artificial intelligence (AI) bots that could be...
by Alessandro Bruno | Jul 30, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field of computer systems designed to simulate human thought or part of it, with the latest generation of products, such as ChatGPT, drawing from vast web content, processing responses, and training themselves to respond more...
by Gatien Dupré | Jul 24, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence
A Novel Analogy Whether you are looking at computer source code history or you are interested in fraud cases, everything can be seen as a story—or a novel, really, linking together the adventures of several characters in expected and sometimes unlikely ways. More...
by Penney Berryman | Jul 23, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Mainframe, Modernization
“AI is about data,” Tom Taulli states with emphasis. “The more data, the better; trillions of tokens are in the model. AI goes where the data is. Mainframes are an untapped frontier that gets overlooked when it comes to AI.” Taulli would know. He’s both an experienced...
by Gatien Dupré | Jul 18, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence
The other day, I was on my couch watching TV, stuck in front of the countless commercials that delayed the evening movie, when an ad spot caught my attention. A female voice extolled the virtues—if there are any—of a car that was supposed to allow me to pursue my...
by Penney Berryman | Jul 12, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Mainframe
“I have great expectations for the growth of the mainframe because of AI.” Cheryl Watson, CEO and co-founder, Watson & Walker The reliable and powerful mainframe might have stayed a contented Clydsdale, efficiently crisscrossing the computing arena and doing its...
by Penney Berryman | Jun 27, 2024 | Observability
As organizations increasingly use cloud, microservices, and containerization, more advanced observability solutions are required to manage complex infrastructures. Observability maturity varies across industries, but its positive business impact and value are...
by Alessandro Bruno | Jun 25, 2024 | Mainframe, Observability
What is observability? Observability has several meanings and applications. Overall, it is a management strategy that prioritizes the most important and fundamental issues in a business operating process. This means it’s a valuable tool for improving user experience,...
by Srushti Shah | Jun 18, 2024 | Education, Mainframe, Observability
With the quick-paced advances in tech today, managing IT well is crucial. One key factor in top-notch IT plans is observability. But what does observability mean exactly in today’s IT terms? How can it help people like tech bosses, DevOps techs, and...
by Frank Kyne | Jun 4, 2024 | Observability
Observability is the vehicle for delivering the next generation of tools to help us regain control. About 15 years ago, I participated in a meeting with customer IT executives to discuss their biggest challenges. I remember one of them describing difficulties in...
by Sonja Soderlund | May 29, 2024 | News, Observability
The 2024 ISG Provider Lens™ Mainframes — Services and Solutions report for the U.S. Public Sector The U.S. public sector continues to rely heavily on its mainframes, and a new report looks specifically at what this crucial sector is doing to keep the technology...
by Amanda Hendley | May 23, 2024 | Mainframe, Webinar
Join this webinar June 20, 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm ET! Registration is open now. In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, managing mainframe application performance and availability has become an increasingly complex task. As hybrid computing...
