During SHARE Kansas City, we nabbed two of Vanguard Integrity Professionals' finest for a conversation. Hear from Milt Rosberg, Vice President, Global Sales, Marketing and Business Development, and Brian Marshall, Chief Strategist. Watch this duo to see who...
According to The Guardian, the Crowdstrike outage crashed an estimated 1% of all Windows PCs worldwide—or about 8.5 million—and is estimated to have cost the US Fortune 500 USD $5 billion. We asked you, Planet Mainframe readers, to share your thoughts on the...
Calling Crowdstrike’s global technology outage “inconvenient” is the understatement of the year. From airlines to banking, 9-1-1 emergency services to grocery stores, and hospitals to telecommunications, millions are maddeningly stuck. The technology blackout began...
The relationship between education and security The digital age is a double-edged sword. While it offers unprecedented connectivity and innovation, it also presents a vast and ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats. From the devastating "mother of all breaches" in...
Jumpstart Z/OS Modernization With New No-Charge Products IBM has announced that starting July 1, 2024, the Open Enterprise SDK for Python, Z Open Automation Utilities (ZOAU), and Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS (OEF) will be added as bypassable requisites to z/OS...
What is observability? Observability has several meanings and applications. Overall, it is a management strategy that prioritizes the most important and fundamental issues in a business operating process. This means it’s a valuable tool for improving user experience,...
IBM just announced a new release of IBM Z JCL Expert, it is the version 1.2, see related announcement here. With this new release the product is enriched in order to better fit your environment with new checks available, new out-of-the-box integration and a new...
Rocket Software Survey Reveals Only 27% of Organizations are Extremely Confident in Mainframe Security Compliance Rocket Software, a global technology leader that develops enterprise software for some of the world’s largest companies, has released the findings of its...
The year is 2033. We’re in the future, and it looks a lot like today. There are no flying cars or immortality pills. Behind the scenes, technology continues running, with the amount of data generated growing year-over-year. Here are a few predictions for what...
For a long time, the perception that mainframes are inherently secure probably made life quite a bit easier for hackers than it really needed to be. Back in the pre-internet world, corporations could probably afford to treat mainframe security as an...
