Virtually everything in your business depends on IT running smoothly. For most enterprises, service outages result in lost productivity, missed opportunities for revenue, and sometimes severe...

Although it’s commonly believed that mainframes are less relevant than in the past, the reality is that transaction volume on these systems has increased by over 55% since 2019. Seventy-one percent...

Modern cloud data platforms are gaining rapidly in popularity, and for very good reasons. Enterprises have long recognized the benefits of having a robust data warehouse for advanced analytics, but...

Capacity management provides organizations with a framework for making important decisions about the level of information technology resources they require to operate effectively and efficiently....

What is a mainframe? One of the best ways to answer that question is to explain what makes mainframes different from other types of computers – especially servers you’d find in a data center....

Mainframes have been the workhorses of the corporate data center for more than half a century. With the advent of new technologies such as the cloud and low-cost x86 commodity servers, many tech...

Today’s consumers have come to expect information systems to be fully operational 24×7.  Whether it’s e-commerce, online banking, or an airline reservation system, if systems are down even...

How important are mainframes today? One way of answering that question is to take a look at some statistics relating to how mainframes are currently used. Keep reading for mainframe statistics that...

Mainframes have one of the longest histories of any kind of computing technology that is still used today. In fact, mainframe history is far too long to pack into a single blog post, but we’re...