by Flora Gui | Feb 23, 2021 | System Z
Network security is not a new topic for IT practitioners, but always a hot one. Data breaches can be devastating to business both operationally and financially. However, the cybersecurity landscape never stands still. Each day attackers invent new ways to probe...
by Cynthia Overby | Jan 19, 2021 | Security
Tried and true, the mainframe is here to stay as the backbone of our digital economy. Even as we advance to include new storage systems, all of our data exists on a mainframe somewhere. In fact, by 2030, there will be 40 trillion mobile transactions per day and the...
by Trevor Eddolls | Sep 26, 2019 | Security
Keeping your mainframe secure is probably one of your top priorities. You’re looking at cryptography and introducing multi-factor authentication (MFA). You may even be running SIEM software to keep up-to-date with what’s happening on your mainframe (and elsewhere)....
by Trevor Eddolls | Jul 9, 2019 | Security
Your organization has had a data breach. You’ve managed to confirm that it’s not a false alarm, it really is an issue. And now you need to recover from it. What do you do? The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has produced...
by Paul Hogg | Aug 29, 2018 | Machine Learning
It’s been a while since my last overly alarmist IT security rant, and with the holiday season just past—when millions of IoT devices flooded our homes and offices—I figure what better time to scare the crap out of the general public. But, in this instance, it’s not...
by Jim Porell | Jul 18, 2018 | System Z
Part 4 of 4: The Value and Future In Part 1 The Basics, Part 2 The Good and Part 3 The Bad, I’ve explained I did a proof of concept port of an Enterprise Application from Amazon Web Services on x86 to Linux on System z in 2017. The good news was I got to the point I...
by Neil Cattermull | Feb 8, 2018 | Analytics
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...
by Kevin J. Davis | Jan 25, 2018 | Mainframe
(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...
by Wayne Sadin | Mar 30, 2016 | Management
Self-driving cars; thermostats that learn your habits; expert systems that help diagnose and treat cancer; smartphones replacing credit cards…and on and on! Technology is becoming more and more important to organizations, no matter what they make or do. Which means an...
