by Darren Surch | Oct 14, 2021 | Education
There is a priceless mainframe computing resource that will, if not properly treated, disappear from your mainframe organization and reduce productivity, increase error and leave you more vulnerable to disaster! It’s a critical resource that your organization...
by Mark Wilson | Feb 11, 2021 | Security
It’s an ill wind that blows no good, and profits nobody. That old nautical phrase popped into my head when I first heard about the SolarWinds supply chain compromise. We’ll return to that later, and its implications. But first I wanted to take a look at a few of the...
by Rohit Badlaney | Feb 2, 2021 | AIOps
The challenges of a digital business At the heart of today’s digital business is the quality of the experience it delivers to customers, partners and employees. But today, delivering the level of service your customers have come to expect is more complicated. In the...
by Reg Harbeck | Aug 19, 2020 | Mainframe
Part 1 of Reg’s article was published last week. Nothing Exceeds Like Success That’s right: last week’s article brought you to this point, the gist of what we need to be preparing for. If, as I have suggested, the mainframe is on its way to becoming a definitive...
by Keith Banham | Jul 9, 2020 | Modernization
The mainframe community is rightly proud of our platform’s ability to accelerate digital transformation and protect enterprises against growing cyber threats. The IBM mainframe’s security, resiliency, and scalability are exactly what is required to deliver growth...
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 Keith Banham | Aug 8, 2019 | Mainframe
For years now, major enterprises – including banks, airlines and insurance companies the world over – have remained faithful to the mainframe to run their core business systems. No surprise, as we all know it remains one of the most dependable, secure and hard-working...
by Thousif Ahamed | Mar 28, 2019 | Mainframe
For the first time ever, we have five generations in the workplace at the same time. This is most profound in a technology like the Mainframe. Fortunately, today a lot of Organizations realize the importance of training the millennials with the aging mainframe...
by Gil Peleg | Feb 7, 2019 | Mainframe, Management
The numbers are clear and compelling: Mainframe usage is on the rise: By this year, 64% of mainframe-powered organizations (up from 57% last year) will be running more than half of their business-critical workloads (analytics, blockchain, web, mobile) on the...
by Gil Peleg | Nov 28, 2018 | Storage
Based on estimates and benchmarks from Technavio and Gartner, the mainframe market—hardware and software—is worth about $44 billion a year. An estimated 90% of all credit and debit cards were still processed on the mainframe in 2017, and IBM continues to sell more...
by Hemanth Rama | Oct 10, 2018 | Mainframe
So you are now working on the mainframe platform. You wanted to keep up with the latest and greatest or you just wanted to get to know a topic or feature associated with the mainframe. Either you just started your job in a mainframe shop or you are an experienced...
by Allan Zander | Sep 26, 2018 | Mainframe
“Quick! Abandon the mainframe. …Oh, and by the way, buy a bunch of our platforms and services for millions of dollars!” —Distributed systems manufacturers Craig Mullins did quite an insightful piece a while back about the state of things in the mainframe world...
by Planet Mainframe | Jun 8, 2018 | Mainframe News Out There
Once a month we like to pick articles from other blogs that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this month’s picks: The Future of the Mainframe Workforce Reg Harbeck of Mainframe Analytics ltd. speaks to Susan Dineen,...
by Bryan Smyth | Aug 9, 2017 | Mainframe, Management
It’s no secret that the dreaded “skills gap” is affecting the mainframe market. It’s getting harder and harder to find people who know COBOL or Assembler, and organizations that rely on these systems often have open job postings because there’s no perfect match for...
by Chris O'Malley | Feb 6, 2017 | Mainframe
Why Enterprise DevOps Should Take Control of Legacy Applications—Now! Like everyone else, you’re being bombarded with content. So you probably read only a fraction of what you encounter. We ask that you approach this article differently, because we genuinely believe...
