Mainframes are expensive – no-one disagrees with that. But what they can do is run industrial strength workloads for less than it would cost on other platforms with much less likelihood of any kind of system malfunction. Having said that, it makes sense to understand...
In this series, Janet Sun explores and dispels numerous myths around the mainframe. Continued from Part 1 and Part 2. What Do You Lose by Moving Off the Mainframe? Efficiency Typically, distributed servers support a single application workload. How many business...
Once a month we like to pick articles from other blogs that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this week’s picks: The Engine of Digital Disruption in the API Economy Very interesting article by Dr. Richard Gamblin in a...
How to deal with Blockchain in a mainframe environment. Blockchain technology – if you were to believe in some of the hype – could change the world as we know it… Realistically however – and in the right circumstances – Blockchain oriented approaches to effectively...
When I heard about the HuffPost article highlighting a video debunking the myths that Hollywood has been repeating about the mainframe, I was cautiously optimistic. Unfortunately, the writer chose to use only one reference book, and focused on the negative points....
The term “Digital Transformation” has been and continues to be mentioned practically everywhere within the industry at the moment. Depending on whom you talk to and why, you will get many different educated answers back on the definition of the term. So from a...
IT and business management are increasingly concerned with the rising costs associated with their highly complex and ever-growing mainframe and distributed systems data centers. They are also concerned about controlling outages and mitigating the lack of transparency...
It’s no secret that the dreaded “skills gap” is affecting the mainframe market. It’s getting harder and harder to find people who know COBOL or Assembler, and organizations that rely on these systems often have open job postings because there’s no perfect match for...
Anyone who has been working on mainframes for any length of time knows that things are always changing. Many people can remember when DB2 was new (1983), the client-server period, and the need for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). And, I’m sure, can come up with a...
Mainframe IT professionals always get excited when IBM announces a new version of its stalwart mainframe z Systems platform. And on July 17, 2017 IBM announced its latest and greatest mainframe hardware, dubbed the IBM z14. Coming more than two years after the IBM...
