Mainframe news out there – November 2017

Mainframe news out there – November 2017

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...

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Blockchain technology and the Mainframe

Blockchain technology and the Mainframe

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...

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A Clear Picture

A Clear Picture

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...

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Making a Modern Mainframer

Making a Modern Mainframer

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...

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What’s waiting round the mainframe corner?

What’s waiting round the mainframe corner?

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...

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7 Mainframe Taboos We Should Break

7 Mainframe Taboos We Should Break

Having worked ‘on The Mainframe’ for almost 20 years at a variety of clients and sites I’ve come about a number of taboos within the Mainframe ‘ecosystem’ that are sometimes just doing my head in and just need to be broken. These taboos can be seen across the playing...

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Blockchain – The Good, The Bad and the…Better.

Blockchain – The Good, The Bad and the…Better.

People keep asking me why I am so excited about the Blockchain, and why I see it as an enabler for the mainframe. I am obviously a fan of the mainframe, and I see a lot of activity in a number of verticals that are creating a really neat rebirth where the mainframe is...

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