by Sonja Soderlund | Apr 11, 2023 | Trivia
If you’re looking for a theme running through this week’s mainframe trivia challenge, it’s all about preparing for future mainframe crises before they happen. Making hay while the sun shines, fixing the roof before it rains…you pick your favorite metaphor. When it...
by Sonja Soderlund | Mar 28, 2023 | Trivia
It’s no secret that a mainframe system is a huge business investment. But when it comes to optimizing the ROI on that investment, many companies downplay the importance of what comes after the initial purchase. Mainframes, according to DataKinetics’ Larry...
by Communications | Jan 12, 2023
The Next Generation of Db2 By: Amanda Hendley Listen here AI Has Entered the Chat and It’s Shaking Up Cybersecurity By: Lee Sullivan Listen here The Importance of Advocacy in Building a zSystems Career By: Lee Sullivan Listen here Do Young People and the Mainframe...
by Christopher Tozzi | Nov 24, 2022 | Security
You could argue – as some folks have – that mainframes are inherently more secure than commodity servers because there are fewer variables at play on mainframe systems, making them easier to secure in some ways. The fact that mainframes account for a relatively small...
by Henrik Loeser | Sep 14, 2022 | Cloud
Cybersecurity is always in a state of change. There are new security features and new attack methods – or was it the other way? Over the past months, several new security features were added to IBM Cloud. In this blog post, I want to quickly describe them and...
by Amy Dall | Nov 11, 2021 | Security
For a considerable time, many organizations have used three to five on-premise databases to manage their workloads, and many teams have tried to funnel every application into using those databases. Today, as the pressure to innovate while keeping costs low...
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...
