2024 Planet Mainframe Hits and Highlights
In 2024, the mainframe world saw remarkable developments in market growth, workforce trends, modernization efforts, and security considerations—and you were…
Mainframes are swimlanes, AI is sprinkles, and COBOL only seems glacial
Derek Britton is one of COBOL’s biggest advocates, a one-man PR agency for the 65-year-old language that “suffers from an…
Top Developer Survey Insights for Mainframe Leaders
Proven and widely available, mainframe leaders can take advantage of modern developer productivity tools, ones often used by distributed/cloud colleagues…
Make Security Your Competitive Advantage
“If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked.” That was according to Richard Clarke,…
Mainframe Modernization — Creating a Platform of YES
Three ways to make mainframe applications, the proven engines of business, more adaptable to a changing, AI-infused world For leaders…
An Approach – DevOps in Mainframe
As we know, Mainframes are not going away for the next 50 years at least and in growth, 8% of…
DOCKER, Containers and Containerization
With the advent of IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX), most of the applications that run on Linux at present will…
CIO Challenge: Dodging the Bimodal IT Bullet
There’s a bullet aimed at the heart of your business. That bullet is the lie of Bimodal IT, which asserts…