Any way you look at it, downtime is extremely costly, especially at the enterprise level. Estimated costs range from a low of just over two thousand dollars per minute, up to as much as nine thousand...
Mainframes continue to play an important role in the IT landscape of many large and midsize organizations. As IT operations analytics practices evolve, however, traditional approaches to monitoring...
Mainframe optimization will be just as important in tomorrow’s computing environments as they are today, if not more so. 71% of Fortune 500 companies continue to rely on mainframe systems to...
Data is a central element of strategy and competitiveness across every industry around the globe. According to 451 Research, 90% of enterprise executives surveyed believe that data will become more...
Mainframes make up some of the most formidable computing power in the world, processing 90 percent of all credit card transactions and 68 percent of the world’s production IT workloads. At the same...
Decades ago, IT systems were self-contained. In an era ruled by mainframe computers, top to bottom programs all ran within a single environment and were written in a single programming language....
Are mainframes the same thing as supercomputers? Not at all. Ask a person on the street to explain the difference between mainframes and supercomputers, however, and you might hear the two terms...
What comes to mind when you hear the word mainframe? If it’s a computer from the 1950s, you probably don’t know as much about mainframes as you could. Keep reading for five little-known...
If you run an IBM mainframe today, you have to choose between two great operating systems options to power it: Linux vs. z/OS. How do you decide? Here’s a guide to choosing the right...
