Conversation with IBM’s Meredith Stowell: IBM Mainframe Skills Council At this week’s SHARE conference in Orlando, IBM announced the launch of the Mainframe Skills Council— “a forum where global organizations will foster a skilled, diverse, sustainable workforce...
IBM Unveils watsonx.governance to Help Businesses Navigate AI Enterprises use AI to solve problems, but businesses are also finding that AI has ushered in a whole new murky world of risks. IBM has announced that watsonx.governance will be released in early December to...
SC Media Honors Rocket Software’s Cynthia Overby for Career in Mainframe Security SC Media, a publication of the CyberRisk Alliance, has announced its five 2023 Women in IT Security Honorees. Among the five honorees is Rocket Software’s Cynthia Overby, lauded for her...
Each month, z/Action! meets some of the world's most innovative companies as they share how they're expanding horizons and driving success with IBM Z. This month we welcome PKWARE’s Jason Dobbs and EJ Pappas. They’re here to discuss cybersecurity: how the threat...
Each month, z/Action! meets some of the world’s most innovative companies as they share how they’re expanding horizons and driving success with IBM zSystems. This month we welcome Mainline Information Systems’ Dusty Rivers. He’s Mainline’s senior director for zSystems...
Introducing the new single frame and rack mount configurations of IBM z16 and IBM LinuxOne 4 IBM's Z series might be the industry standard bearers for security and reliability, but for small to medium-sized businesses without a lot of floor space, a full-sized...
Federico Faggin, the inventor of the microchip, has been turning his gaze ever more toward and inside the human being. He has said in various interviews, in his native Italy, that his new goal, far more than improving computing capacity, is to teach people, regular...
It seems like every week there is a new story of a major company or organization being affected by a cyber-attack. It might be a ransomware attack, stolen user data, or other disruption to services, and may be initiated either by an external attack or internal...
Mainframe systems are highly relevant even under the shadow of cloud computing. And, why not? Businesses need them to carry out millions of monetary or data transactions per minute to stay afloat. Mainly, people from Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, AWS, and other...
One of the greatest problems many mainframe-using organizations face is finding young staff who understand the mainframe and can take over from those experts who have been around for a while, seen it all, and now want to slip quietly into retirement. Too many colleges...
