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Monitors, Analytics, and AI … Oh My!

Monitors, Analytics, and AI … Oh My!

Delivering high quality service to end users is the primary mission of IT organizations. The importance of this imperative is steadily increasing as the world becomes ever more in entrenched in a technology driven digital economy. Thankfully, more tools than ever...
The Fuel That’s Driving AIOps

The Fuel That’s Driving AIOps

Introduction The increasingly hybrid and complex application landscape that spans from distributed to Z is accelerating the challenges that CIOs and IT operations must deal with to maintain the health and resiliency of their hybrid applications and...
Collaborative incident remediation

Collaborative incident remediation

Introduction Organizations are drawn to the promise of AIOps to leverage AI-driven Intelligence and automation to make quick and accurate decisions to maintain resiliency. AIOps uses artificial intelligence to simplify IT operations management and accelerate and...
The Mainframe Lives and Thrives – Part 2

The Mainframe Lives and Thrives – Part 2

The first part of the article. Let’s Boot the Mainframe Out! Baby and Bathwater The paper below talks of the value to business of their legacy systems and why the ‘rip out and replace’ is not a real option. The software investment on mainframes is often mission- or...
Your journey to AIOps includes IBM Z

Your journey to AIOps includes IBM Z

The challenges of a digital business At the heart of today’s digital business is the quality of the experience it delivers to customers, partners and employees. But today, delivering the level of service your customers have come to expect is more complicated. In the...
Mainframe modernization remains a top priority

Mainframe modernization remains a top priority

The mainframe community is rightly proud of our platform’s ability to accelerate digital transformation and protect enterprises against growing cyber threats. The IBM mainframe’s security, resiliency, and scalability are exactly what is required to deliver growth...
Fear the Mainframe

Fear the Mainframe

For many years, it seems, management and the distributed IT team have, more-or-less, ignored the mainframe. The mainframe has been quietly keeping the company in business, running all those transactions, and being reliable, powerful, scalable, and secure. All the...
Analytics – now – and in the future

Analytics – now – and in the future

It has been going on for decades on the mainframe The future is about doing it better in multi-platform environments And – in real time Given the meteoric rise in the use of smartphones, the increasing inter-connectivity between what were previously...
If it isn’t broken…

If it isn’t broken…

(Legacy systems – their role – their future.) I used to run a company which specialized in providing so-called Direct Market Access (DMA) to suitably authorized Buy-Side firms – as well as to many firms on the Sell-Side.  Many of these firms (particularly the High...
What’s next for green screens?

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...