Blockchain A Great Candidate For The Mainframe

Blockchain A Great Candidate For The Mainframe

Most of you are undoubtedly familiar with one of the biggest buzz terms in the industry by now: blockchain. If not, have a quick read of a great article from a few months ago in The Wall Street Journal, CIO Explainer: What Is Blockchain? Blockchain started out as the...

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Punk’s not dead and neither is the mainframe

Punk’s not dead and neither is the mainframe

Admittedly, I’m as much a music fan as I’m a technophile—perhaps it’s this combination that makes it easy for me to draw comparisons from the punk music genre to that of the mainframe. After all, punk hasn’t changed—it has simply evolved. From the early days of 1970s...

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Don’t get fooled by the Mainframe FUD

Don’t get fooled by the Mainframe FUD

I've been seeing FUD (Fear! Uncertainty! Doubt!) articles like this one for years now and while it's pretty easy to see through them, this time I decided that I just have to say something. The gist of the article, as the title suggests, is that legacy systems are old...

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Four ways Mainframe shops can Embrace Mobile

Four ways Mainframe shops can Embrace Mobile

Part 4: New Online Processing and Data Storage This is Part 4 of a 5-part series about how mainframe shops can embrace the needs of new mobile workloads. Last time, we looked at a new online processing solution that would replace the existing online processing, but...

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