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What You Don’t Know About Your Mainframe Backups Could Cost You

What You Don’t Know About Your Mainframe Backups Could Cost You

by Gil Peleg | Nov 28, 2018

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...

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Mainframers are starting to ask questions about security – and that’s a good thing

Mainframers are starting to ask questions about security – and that’s a good thing

by Keith Banham | Mar 1, 2018

IT security crises are forever making business headlines. In 2017 it was the high profile ransomware attacks and huge data breaches such as Equifax. Barely a week into 2018 and we had the revelations surrounding the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities affecting...

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