Nurturing new mainframe talent: five key lessons

Nurturing new mainframe talent: five key lessons

The tide is definitely turning: organizations are replacing the outdated narrative that the mainframe is ‘old’ tech with a more objective view focusing on how IBM Z can support their business over the long term, while also contributing to digital transformation. At...

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CFO Thoughts on Z Day 2022

CFO Thoughts on Z Day 2022

Tuesday April 5, 2022 was a great day to be part of the mainframe community. As you may have seen on the wire, that was the day IBM “unveiled IBM® z16™, IBM's next-generation system with an integrated on-chip AI accelerator—delivering latency-optimized...

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z/OS Containers – Understanding z/OS Automation

z/OS Containers – Understanding z/OS Automation

In my last blog, I gave an overview about Kubernetes and highlighted how Kubernetes orchestrates application deployments. There are certainly much more capabilities and concepts to discuss but I don't want to overwhelm you with the details at this point. Rather,...

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zEDC and IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/OS

zEDC and IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/OS

Long before zEDC, IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/OS (CDzOS), a managed file transfer product specializing in sending z/OS datasets from one mainframe customer to another, supported compressing a file before transmitting it. It originally only supported simple...

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From traditional IT operations to AIOps

From traditional IT operations to AIOps

AIOps is a trending topic within the hybrid and complex IT landscape.  And in fact, many companies already started their journey to AIOps. They have more and new requirements for IT operations. From our experience working with China and ASEAN Pacific customers,...

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