What You Don’t Know About Your Mainframe Backups Could Cost You
Based on estimates and benchmarks from Technavio and Gartner, the mainframe market—hardware and software—is worth about $44 billion a year.…
Moore’s the Pity: How the Mainframe can help us Adapt to a Post-Moore’s-Law Reality
Law Brakers According to Wikipedia (Moore’s law), Intel co-founder Gordon Moore introduced his eponymous law in a 1965 paper that…
Always On: Achieving continuous availability for non-data sharing workloads in a z/OS Parallel Sysplex
Introduction The z/OS Parallel Sysplex® technology provides a highly reliable, redundant, and robust environment by clustering together multiple z/OS systems…
This November, Vote Yes on the Mainframe
Working on a political campaign back in the day, I consistently found myself assigned to the phone banks. I would…
Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
Or: We need to talk about mainframe hacking There’s an elephant in the room says Mark Wilson. It’s mainframe-sized, at…
So what Does ‘Mainframe Modernization’ Really Mean?
What is mainframe modernization? Well, a lot of vendors will tell you that it is the replacement of some, or…
9 ways to Master the Z
So you are now working on the mainframe platform. You wanted to keep up with the latest and greatest or…
Do I need real-time, continuous, mainframe security monitoring and auditing?
To be honest, mainframes are pretty secure, aren’t they? We’ve had RACF and other External Security Managers (ESMs) for years.…