Why Mainframes Matter in the Age of Cloud Computing

It’s easy enough to understand why one might think that mainframes are no longer relevant in the present age of “cloud-native” everything. Today, moving to and operating in the cloud is a top priority for organizations. Public and private cloud computing platforms like AWS and Azure are more popular than ever. You may think that, […]

How to Maintain Data Availability (and Avoid Downtime Disaster)

How many times do you access your data on a daily basis? It could be just a few or 100 times a day, but in either case, you depend on that data for almost every decision you make. So imagine what would happen if that data availability became unavailable for any reason. As companies become […]

Why is Capacity Management Important?

In today’s world of constant and ever accelerating change we have the tendency to discard the old and look for the new. This is true for all sorts of consumer items, but it is often true for the ideas we have and the processes we use too. New must be better just because it’s new, […]

High Availability Architecture: A Real-Life Blueprint to Use and Share

What does it take to achieve high availability? The short answer is “a lot.” Building highly available infrastructure requires investing in multiple infrastructure components, tools, and processes. For the longer answer to building a high-availability architecture, keep reading. What is high availability? Simply put, high availability means that everything hosted on your infrastructure is resilient […]