by Penney Berryman | Aug 2, 2024 | lessons learned, Security
According to The Guardian, the Crowdstrike outage crashed an estimated 1% of all Windows PCs worldwide—or about 8.5 million—and is estimated to have cost the US Fortune 500 USD $5 billion. We asked you, Planet Mainframe readers, to share your thoughts on the...
by JJ Lovett | Aug 1, 2024 | careers, Mainframe
We’ve all heard the saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. While this rings true in the practical sense, it also is a direct reflection of the dynamic some organizations are finding themselves in regarding internal mainframe talent. Commonly, the emphasis...
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 Sonja Soderlund | Jul 29, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Trivia
This month at Planet Mainframe, the topic of AI has been front and center. So far, our trivia quizzes have looked at AI’s role in cybersecurity, compliance, and optimization. Today, we focus on the big topic of future trends and innovation. The intersection of AI and...
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 Penney Berryman | Jul 22, 2024 | Availability, cyber security, outage
Calling Crowdstrike’s global technology outage “inconvenient” is the understatement of the year. From airlines to banking, 9-1-1 emergency services to grocery stores, and hospitals to telecommunications, millions are maddeningly stuck. The technology blackout began...
by Amanda Hendley | Jul 17, 2024 | podcast
In this episode of the Planet Mainframe podcast, Amanda Hendley talks with Chris Muncan, the chair of the 2024 IDUG North America Conference. Chris and Amanda discuss Db2 innovations, the conference, and the best ways to maintain and grow your skills. Transcription...
by Sonja Soderlund | Jul 8, 2024 | News
Jumpstart Z/OS Modernization With New No-Charge Products IBM has announced that starting July 1, 2024, the Open Enterprise SDK for Python, Z Open Automation Utilities (ZOAU), and Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS (OEF) will be added as bypassable requisites to z/OS...
by Amanda Hendley | Jul 3, 2024 | Conference, DB2, User Group
The International Db2 Users Group (IDUG), an independent, not-for-profit organization providing education, services, and conferences for the IBM Db2 database, recently hosted the 2024 IDUG North America Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. This event brought...
by Planet Mainframe | Jun 29, 2024
IMS User Group | June 2024 Introduction to IMS Catalog & IMS Managed ACBs IBM has put out a Statement of Direction (SOD) that says IMS Managed ACBs will be required by the summer of 2025. That’s only a year away! Every IMS client that has IMS DB, is impacted by...
by Sonja Soderlund | Jun 28, 2024 | News
DDC IT Services Wins $50m Mainframe Contract from DISA DDC IT Services (DDC ITS) has secured a $50 million contract from the US Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Mainframe Line of Business (LOB). This contract, dubbed Mainframe West, is the second major...
by Mark Wilson | Jun 27, 2024 | Observability, resiliency
‘Cyber resilience’ seems to be discussed everywhere these days, in light of continuing cyberattacks, and recent concerns that organizations may not be ready to meet the requirements of the Digital Operations Resilience Act (DORA) from January 2025. In essence, cyber...
by Sonja Soderlund | Jun 17, 2024 | Observability, resiliency, Trivia
This month at Planet Mainframe we’ve been focusing on the topic of observability and resiliency – a topic that is evergreen in a world rife with cyber-hazards. Our last trivia quiz was on observability, so we’re dedicating this week’s quiz to resiliency. In...
by Vertali | Jun 13, 2024 | resiliency
How can you ensure your mainframe systems can provide the consistent reliability, availability and performance that you and your customers expect — and that if you run into problems, expert help is on the case quickly? How can you calculate the real-life impact of...
by Amanda Hendley | Jun 12, 2024 | Observability, podcast
For observability and resiliency month, Amanda Hendley sat down for the Planet Mainframe podcast with Lifetime IBM Z Champion Darren Surch. Darren is the CEO of Interskill Learning, the world’s most delivered and credentialed mainframe training. Darren and Amanda took...
