2020 vision
I was working recently with a mixed bag of people from a company, who were trying to predict the future…
The Mainframe: Three Dimensional Thinking In IT
This is not an article on multidimensional databases, 3D rendering, or spatial databases, but rather how CIOs in IT think,…
Settling for less
I was reading the news on CNN recently about a power outage in California, which reminded me of some serious…
Mainframe optimization on the high seas
Being in the mainframe business for about 10 years now, I hear interesting anecdotes from time to time, often from…
Mainframes are used increasingly by major banks and financial institutions
Do you think the mainframe is dead? A dinosaur, an ancient piece of technology that has outlived its usefulness like…
Data Centers, Mainframes and the rest!
When compared to an x86/distributed server environment, the operational costs of the power consumption versus IBM’s Mainframe z Systems are…
Bringing DevOps to your mainframe
The days of waterfall software development on a mainframe are coming to an end. It’s no longer tolerable for end…
The Third Platform and the Mainframe
The Third Platform is defined as the interdependencies between mobile computing, social media, cloud computing, and information/analytics (big data), and…