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...
Thousands of organizations around the world continue to rely on mainframes for mission-critical business applications. It’s not surprising that mainframes still remain at center stage in many...
Mainframe and midrange server are probably among the least understood terms in IT – due in part to the fact that folks don’t necessarily know what differentiates these types of systems from...
