The 2025 Arcati Mainframe Survey reveals shifts in hybrid IT, outsourcing, AI adoption, and more from 165+ organizations reshaping enterprise mainframes.
Top 10 Key Findings from the 2025 Arcati Mainframe Survey
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New To Z: Year One as a Mainframe Trainee
What’s it like to enter the mainframe world with no previous experience on the platform? In early 2024, Vertali recruited Felix Scott to join its ground-breaking New To Z (NTZ) program as a trainee. Below, Felix reflects on what it’s like. As I write, it’s been...
Free Training, a Real Mainframe, and Top Skills — Meet the EMMA Apprenticeship Program
The demand for skilled mainframe professionals continues to grow in a world with Big Iron powering critical industries and massive data operations. Yet traditional pathways into mainframe careers pose challenges for newcomers and mid-career transitions.Enter the Eli...
Welcoming Talent and Training Month at Planet Mainframe
As we turn the calendar to a new page, Planet Mainframe is thrilled to announce the commencement of Talent and Training Month—a special period dedicated to celebrating and exploring the individuals, programs, and opportunities within the world of mainframe computing. ...
The Power of Education: How the Vitality Program Accelerated my Mainframe Career
Séphora Thurel was a Broadcom Vitality Program resident from the fifth cohort that ended in Fall 2022. She is a Canadian citizen from Montreal and attended the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). With a keen lifelong interest in technology, Sephora is motivated...
Join CICS Training Courses
CICS is used on 80% of Mainframe Systems across the world. It is known as CICS Transaction Server. Application Programmers can write their programs using CICS Command Level interface. System programmers install CICS, and engage in Performance Tuning, and Debugging....
Solo: A Mainframe Story (Special Edition)
In today’s world, it's almost impossible for any mainframe operations to work solo: going it alone in terms of the expertise, skills and resources required to succeed, writes Mark Wilson, RSM Partners. A bit like Han Solo piloting the Millennium Falcon, running...
