Mainframes are swimlanes, AI is sprinkles, and COBOL only seems glacial
Derek Britton is one of COBOL’s biggest advocates, a one-man PR agency for the 65-year-old language that “suffers from an…
Defense against the dark arts — mainframe security
Mainframers who thought the mainframe was too difficult a platform to hack are few and far between these days. However,…
Security has no boundaries
In today’s complex cybersecurity landscape, staying current with software updates is just one piece of the puzzle. To truly protect…
Cyber Security Awareness Trivia
October is Cyber Security Awareness month at Planet Mainframe, so over here at Trivia Challenge we’ll be focusing our trivia…
Enhancing IMS Performance with Dataset-Level Encryption
In a recent virtual user group session, Dennis Eichelberger, a veteran with over 45 years of mainframe and database systems…
Interview – Age Before Beauty with Vanguard
During SHARE Kansas City, we nabbed two of Vanguard Integrity Professionals’ finest for a conversation. Hear from Milt Rosberg, Vice…
What You Said – (ClownStrike) CloudStrike
According to The Guardian, the Crowdstrike outage crashed an estimated 1% of all Windows PCs worldwide—or about 8.5 million—and is…
Share Your Thoughts — What Does a Global Blackout Mean for Mainframe Companies?
Calling Crowdstrike’s global technology outage “inconvenient” is the understatement of the year. From airlines to banking, 9-1-1 emergency services to…