Sabre Inc. is the biggest provider of air booking in the US. Their real-time computing technology initially used in 1960 was designed by IBM, and the company adopted the use of the IBM System/360 mainframe computers in the early 1970s. Since the turn of the century,...
It’s easily agreeable: From households across the globe, to enterprise organizations, saving money is top of mind. However, putting principles into practice to make this actionable can sometimes feel daunting. It doesn’t have to be. In the case of enterprises,...
Moving a data center from one location to another is always an intimidating - even hair-raising - proposition. But when it’s the world's leading insurance market that needs to move its data center to a new, modern facility, the project takes on epic proportions....
Introducing the new single frame and rack mount configurations of IBM z16 and IBM LinuxOne 4 IBM's Z series might be the industry standard bearers for security and reliability, but for small to medium-sized businesses without a lot of floor space, a full-sized...
Among other tech trends like AI, cloud computing, and decentralized systems, Deloitte Insights Magazine listed mainframe modernization as one of the top six tech trends of 2023. While the article acknowledges that the word “mainframe” in a list of the hottest tech...
Introduction Organizations are drawn to the promise of AIOps to maintain resiliency by leveraging AI-driven intelligence and automation for quick and accurate decisions. AIOps uses artificial intelligence to simplify IT operations management through...
The first part of the article. Let’s Boot the Mainframe Out! Baby and Bathwater The paper below talks of the value to business of their legacy systems and why the ‘rip out and replace’ is not a real option. The software investment on mainframes is often mission- or...
What is mainframe modernization? Well, a lot of vendors will tell you that it is the replacement of some, or all of your mainframe infrastructure, which is old and costly to run (or so they will tell you), with commodity servers (and their software and services), that...
I've been seeing FUD (Fear! Uncertainty! Doubt!) articles like this one for years now and while it's pretty easy to see through them, this time I decided that I just have to say something. The gist of the article, as the title suggests, is that legacy systems are old...
