For a considerable time, many organizations have used three to five on-premise databases to manage their workloads, and many teams have tried to funnel every application into using those databases. Today, as the pressure to innovate while keeping costs low...
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...
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,...
Once a month (or so) we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this month’s picks: IBM Telum Processor An interesting article on the DancingDinosaur blog (Hi Telum) about...
Many of we mainframe pundits have written about the robustness, power, perseverance, capacity and more importantly, the cost-effectiveness of the mainframe (Allingham, Sun, Peleg), including myself. But what about showing the superiority of the mainframe using real...
Introduction The increasingly hybrid and complex application landscape that spans from distributed to Z is accelerating the challenges that CIOs and IT operations must deal with to maintain the health and resiliency of their hybrid applications and...
Introduction Organizations are drawn to the promise of AIOps to leverage AI-driven Intelligence and automation to make quick and accurate decisions to maintain resiliency. AIOps uses artificial intelligence to simplify IT operations management and accelerate and...
Have you tried any in-memory optimization techniques since transitioning to Tailored Fit Pricing? With the adoption of Tailored Fit Pricing comes new opportunity. Under the traditional Rolling 4 Hour Average (R4HA) model, the focus for...
In our previous update for IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics in February, we detailed some important updates to aid capacity planning activities and expanding the scope of our performance insight capabilities for z/OS Communication Server users. I'm...
Organizations are drawn to the promise of AIOps to leverage AI-driven Intelligence and automation to make quick and accurate decisions to maintain resiliency. AIOps uses artificial intelligence to simplify IT operations management and accelerate and automate problem...
