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...
As strange as it may sound to many, but people need to get their fact straight - that IBM Mainframes were the first ever Cloud Computing platform built on planet earth. Cloud Computing is probably the most heard about 'Fancy Tech Term' in the modern era of Digital...
For many years, it seems, management and the distributed IT team have, more-or-less, ignored the mainframe. The mainframe has been quietly keeping the company in business, running all those transactions, and being reliable, powerful, scalable, and secure. All the...
If you’ve earned your living in the IT field for any length of time, you know that words and phrases come and go with regularity. “Hybrid” is one of the words de jour. And, it’s a good word. My only quibble is that those of us who have built integration technology...
With $6 billion in revenue, VMware is heralded as a great success in the enterprise tech sector. However, VMware’s success is a clear indicator of the failure of distributed computing. Here’s why: Reason #1: A $6 billion band-aid The first chapter of the sad story of...
In 2016, the least expensive city in the U.S. for annual data center operating costs is Sioux Falls, South Dakota, at $9,684,282 in annual operating costs[1]. In Canada, where the lowest risk associated with data centers is second only to the U.S., the costs of energy...
