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Missing Mainframe and IT Skills: How Enterprises Can Respond

Missing Mainframe and IT Skills: How Enterprises Can Respond

by Derek Britton | Jan 9, 2026

Attendees at GS UK 2025 noticed a new track, WAVEZ 101, dedicated to early-career and undergraduate mainframers. I was delighted to be invited to speak on mainframe skills and what I see for the industry’s future employees.  A Gloomy Skills Outlook The IT skills topic...

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Enterprise IT Trends: Reflections on a Year of Adjustment (and a Look Ahead)

Enterprise IT Trends: Reflections on a Year of Adjustment (and a Look Ahead)

by Derek Britton | Dec 16, 2025

As I reflect on yet another year of tectonic adjustment across the technology sector, I see little evidence that things are about to calm down. If anything, the forces reshaping enterprise IT feel more entrenched, more demanding, and more consequential than ever....

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Why Mainframe Observability Matters in Unifying Hybrid IT Operations

Why Mainframe Observability Matters in Unifying Hybrid IT Operations

by Derek Britton | Sep 26, 2025

Let’s be honest: mainframes are mission-critical but often seen as separate technological islands that can get left out of the observability conversation. Distributed-based, leading observability solutions such as DataDog, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk et al. have...

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