by Butch Rambish | Jan 28, 2022 | Security
Resiliency is an integral part of the IBM Z platform. The IBM Z Cyber Vault solution is a concept for addressing data corruption whether through malicious intent, human error or failure of hardware or software. It provides an air gapped backup of the operating...
by Michael Miehle | Jan 25, 2022 | Security
You may be aware of data privacy regulations such as Europe’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) or California’s CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) that, among other things, ban you from using production data with personally identifiable information, such...
by Rebecca Levesque | Jan 14, 2022 | Mainframe
Some people say that IBM Z is “fit for purpose” but I believe a better description is that it’s fit for business purpose. The purpose of Z is business—because it’s reliable, efficient, and secure. This is an important distinction to make because at...
by Travis Biro | Dec 10, 2021 | Management
Check out part one: What is Provisioning? to get caught up. Welcome back for part two of this provisioning automation blog series. In this installment we will be breaking down the opportunities for automated provisioning across the Z ecosystem. For clients that have...
by Travis Biro | Dec 8, 2021 | Management
Part One: What is Provisioning? It’s no secret that in this age of digital transformation businesses are looking to build high-quality software for their customers and critical business processes. However, there are several challenges that they face when...
by Planet Mainframe | Nov 30, 2021 | Mainframe News Out There
Once a month (or so) we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this month’s picks: 5 Quick Ways to Speed up Your z/OS Batch Without Application Changes An interesting...
by Christian Jacobi | Sep 29, 2021 | Mainframe
In today’s digital economy, data offers tremendous opportunities for harvesting value. Yet extracting insight from real time enterprise transactions can present an elusive goal. Running deep learning models on high volume transactional data is difficult to attain with...
by Trevor Eddolls | Sep 15, 2021 | Mainframe
Self-help gurus have become the equivalent to pop stars and TV idols. They are well-known and have thousands of followers on social media. And their message is always to be positive. We should always think about successful outcomes to anything that we want to achieve....
by Allan Zander | Sep 7, 2021 | Mainframe
Many of we mainframe pundits have written about the robustness, power, perseverance, capacity and more importantly, the cost-effectiveness of the mainframe (Allingham, Sun, Peleg), including myself. But what about showing the superiority of the mainframe using real...
by Subhasish Sarkar | Aug 30, 2021 | Blockchain
It’s probably 9 out of 10 times that things like BITCOIN and such other cryptocurrencies come to people’s mind when they hear the term “BLOCKCHAIN”. And, why not? BITCOIN was what resulted in the Blockchain technology hogging the limelight in the...
by Ashok Mahay | Aug 19, 2021 | Cloud, Observability
Introduction Organizations are drawn to the promise of AIOps to maintain resiliency by leveraging AI-driven intelligence and automation for quick and accurate decisions. AIOps uses artificial intelligence to simplify IT operations management through...
by Terry Critchley | Jul 6, 2021 | Mainframe
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...
by Trevor Eddolls | Jun 25, 2021 | Cloud
Much has been written about cloud computing, and, for a long time, it was very much an either/or situation. People highlighted how much better the mainframe was, and others focused on the things cloud computing was best at. It seems that now, the way forward is to...
by Ember Crooks | Jun 15, 2021 | DB2
There’s a reason why database administration or engineering remains a separate specialty. There are a large number of rabbit holes you can go down. I’m well aware that there’s probably 40% of Db2 LUW alone that I don’t know, even though I’ve spent 20 years working...
by Erin Zhang | Jun 14, 2021 | Education
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