by Larry Strickland | Aug 30, 2016 | Mainframe
Part 3: New Online Processing This is Part 3 in this five-part series about how mainframe shops can embrace the needs of new mobile workloads. Last time, we looked at the forklift option: burning the legacy infrastructure to the ground and building it back up again...
by Neale D'Rozario | Aug 10, 2016 | Management
A recent study found that 70% of enterprises have either applications or infrastructure running in the cloud today—that’s up 12% from 2012. As well, since 2012 cloud investments by large-scale enterprises with over 1,000 employees have increased by 20%—on average...
by Jeff Josten | Jul 26, 2016 | DB2, Mainframe
Business transformation and agility are critical in today’s fast moving world. Clients demand insights faster, more often, and with greater accuracy based on up-to-the-second transactional data that is frequently housed in mainframe systems. The dependency on...
by Trevor Eddolls | Jun 23, 2016 | Mainframe
For a long time now, the still young at heart mainframers have been making plans. Unfortunately, it’s not plans for how to improve mainframe performance or reduce costs, it’s what to do once they retire. And the bad news is that more and more mainframers are retiring....
by Allan Zander | Jun 16, 2016 | Management
Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent Can’t Get The Job Done Because They Don’t Go To Work Wearing Their Cape I am really starting to get sick of the conventional wisdom that exists out there that maintains that companies should abandon the mainframe and do all their computing...
by Trevor Eddolls | May 18, 2016 | Mainframe
Mainframes are under siege. You might like to picture the mainframe department as some medieval castle surrounded by invading troops. There’s no actual fighting going on, but gradually the forces of distributed computing are waiting for the survivors inside the...
by Craig Mullins | May 3, 2016 | Mainframe
So what is a mainframe? The answer to that question might, at first glance, seem to be obvious to some of us who have worked with mainframe systems our entire career. But have you ever really tried to step back and think about the question? What if your Mother asked...
by Wayne Sadin | Apr 19, 2016 | Management
Three weeks ago here on Planet Mainframe I introduced the idea that a CIO must excel in 4 areas: Alignment, Architecture, Agility and Ability. Over the last weeks we had a close look at IT Alignment, Architecture and Agility. This week we wrap up visiting IT Ability....
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...
by Keith Allingham | Mar 15, 2016 | Mainframe
Once upon a time, a website existed that recorded some of the most spectacularly failed mainframe migration projects. Of interest to all mainframe type people, I’m sure that it saw a lot of traffic; a Google search on ReBoot Hill yields the website, but it no longer...
by Allan Zander | Jan 7, 2016 | Mainframe
2015 was a great year for the mainframe business—and that was great news for large IT organizations running mainframe systems, as well as the companies that support these business sectors. The old myth that the mainframe is dead was countered by IBM with the launch of...
by Craig Mullins | Dec 9, 2015 | Mainframe
Talk to anyone who has ever worked on a mainframe and you will see that they are acutely aware of important factors that are sometimes overlooked on other platforms. Things like security, control, scalability, and reliability are second nature to mainframe computer...
by Allan Zander | Dec 7, 2015 | Mainframe
More and more businesses are introducing mobile applications as part of their business activities intended to be more competitive, to increase market share, and to increase customer satisfaction. The motivation isn’t hard to fathom – creating mobile...
by Rick Weaver | Nov 23, 2015 | Mainframe
On January 14, 2015, IBM announced new mainframe hardware (z13) with a new Operating System version (z/OS V2.2). Together, the new hardware and operating system bring the IBM mainframe firmly to the forefront of supporting mobile smartphone applications and cloud...
by Allan Zander | Nov 20, 2015 | Mainframe
There was a time, quite a while ago now, when there were serious IT executives announcing that the mainframe was obsolete, overpriced technology and that its days were numbered. It was a dinosaur. But these folks weren’t well informed, and perhaps had certain biases...
