Keeping mainframe up-to-date
How can you make sure that your mainframe staff stay up-to-date with the latest ideas in the mainframe world? The…
The Evolving Mainframe Landscape
Most of us acknowledge the fact that the mainframe will be around for a very long time. There are too…
Big Data and the Mainframe: A Perfect Partnership
“Big data” and the impact of analytics on large quantities of data is a persistent trend these days in just…
My Great Uncle Was a Farmer so I am a Mainframer
Why am I a Mainframer? It all started when my great uncle bought a Combine…. When I was growing up,…
Internet of Things Managed by….Mainframe?
Michael Porter at the Harvard Business Review recently said that the Internet of Things (IoT) will deliver an economic boom…
Have retailers not learned anything from past Black Friday and Cyber Monday disasters?
In my last article, Are You Ready for Growing Mobile Workloads, I asked you to keep an eye out for…
Every IT Professional Should Work in a Mainframe Environment (…at some point)
Talk to anyone who has ever worked on a mainframe and you will see that they are acutely aware of…
Mainframe – the dinosaur on the cutting edge
There was a time, quite a while ago now, when there were serious IT executives announcing that the mainframe was…