by Lee Sullivan | Jul 28, 2023 | Media, podcast
Each month, z/Action! meets some of the world’s most innovative companies as they share how they’re expanding horizons and driving success with IBM Z. This month we welcome PKWARE’s Jason Dobbs and EJ Pappas. They’re here to discuss cybersecurity: how the...
by Communications | Jul 28, 2023
AI Has Entered the Chat and It’s Shaking Up Cybersecurity By: Lee Sullivan With the sudden onset of AI, data threats have changed and increased in velocity almost overnight. “This wave of change is going be a lot faster than some of the previous waves that have...
by Penney Berryman | Feb 19, 2026 | Featured, IBM Z, Mainframe Strategy, Research & Surveys
In an era defined by AI hype and cloud-first declarations, the mainframe environment, in contrast, appears quiet and refined. Organizations running IBM Z continue to anchor revenue, enforce governance, and modernize on their own timetable. Nothing is happening...
by Planet Mainframe | Feb 19, 2026 | Arcati Navigator 2026
The 2026 Arcati Mainframe User Survey reinforces a consistent picture of IBM Z as a durable system-of-record platform operating inside mature hybrid environments. Across business dependence, platform currency, workforce structure, tooling investment, security posture,...
by Planet Mainframe | Feb 19, 2026 | Arcati Navigator
Security and risk management remain central to how organizations operate and evolve their mainframe environments. In the 2026 Arcati Mainframe User Survey, respondents describe security as an embedded operational discipline that shapes priorities, tooling, and...
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 Kevin Milne | Jan 12, 2026 | Operations & Resilience, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management, Security
Mainframes hold the heart of the most critical business processes in finance, healthcare, and government. Yet many security programmes still draw a neat line around them, treating z/OS as out of scope for red teaming, scenarios, and cyber risk quantification. This...
by Derek Britton | Jan 9, 2026 | careers, Enterprise IT, Industry Insights, Mainframe Skills
Attendees at GS UK 2025 noticed a new track, WAVEZ 101, dedicated to early-career and undergraduate mainframers. I was delighted to be invited to speak on mainframe skills and what I see for the industry’s future employees. A Gloomy Skills Outlook The IT skills topic...
by Penney Berryman | Jan 7, 2026 | careers, DB2, Mainframe Skills, Workforce Development
Mainframe careers rarely follow a script. Rather, they grow through curiosity, mentorship, and a willingness to keep learning. This trifecta is especially necessary as tools, platforms, and expectations evolve. Planet Mainframe caught up with Chris Muncan, Lead DB2...
by Sonja Soderlund | Jan 5, 2026 | News
VIRTEL announces release of Virtel 4.63: a major new version to better connect, secure, and simplify access to any mainframe application SHARE Orlando Early Bird Tickets Available Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform One Wins CRN 2025 Products of the Year...
by Sonja Soderlund | Dec 22, 2025 | Trivia
As the year draws to a close (whether your days are growing shorter and darker or longer and brighter), December tends to invite a little reflection. Over the past year, Planet Mainframe Trivia has dished out a veritable smorgasbord of topics, from the early days of...
by Derek Britton | Dec 16, 2025 | Digital Transformation, Enterprise IT, Hybrid IT, IT Strategy
As I reflect on yet another year of tectonic adjustment across the technology sector, I see little evidence that things are about to calm down. If anything, the forces reshaping enterprise IT feel more entrenched, more demanding, and more consequential than ever....
by Sam Barker | Dec 2, 2025 | Host Access, Modernization, Security, Sponsored
In March 2025, Ericom PowerTerm, a terminal emulator still used by thousands of organizations to access mainframes, IBM i systems, Unix hosts, VMS machines, and other mission-critical environments, officially entered End-of-Life (EOL). For decades, PowerTerm provided...
by Sonja Soderlund | Dec 1, 2025 | News
Kyndryl Cloud Readiness Report: Hybrid Cloud Shapes the Future of AI and Enterprise Agility BMC Selected as Overall Leader for Workload Automation in Industry Report Kyndryl Named a Top 100 Most Loved Workplace® by the Wall Street Journal IBM and Groq Partner to...
