Why Is Mainframe Still Relevant and Thriving in 2022?

Why Is Mainframe Still Relevant and Thriving in 2022?

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...

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Tell them about mainframes

Tell them about mainframes

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...

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The tide is definitely turning: organizations are replacing the outdated narrative that the mainframe is ‘old’ tech with a more objective view focusing on how IBM Z can support their business over the long term, while also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