Get Your Data Ready for 2020
As we kick off 2020, lets wrap up some of our content from 2019. Here’s some blog posts on looking forward to 2020 to get you going in the new year! How to modernize your traditional database...
Five Modern Day Mainframe Use Cases
At a time when cloud computing and commodity x86 servers seem to be generating all the excitement in the IT world, the venerable mainframe refuses to be left behind. We see mainframe use cases today...
Building a Mainframe Disaster Recovery Strategy
Your mainframe may not be at the forefront of your mind when you’re planning for disaster recovery. But it should be because getting your mainframe back up and running quickly is essential...
Can Mainframes Be Modern Again? Meet Zowe
To many people, seeing the two words “Mainframe” and “modern” in the same sentence would be a total surprise. Surely mainframes were modern back in 1950’s or 1960’s when IBM...
Making Mainframes DevOps-Friendly
Can you do DevOps on your mainframe? That might seem like a silly question. DevOps is among the newest trends in IT, and mainframes are an established, “legacy” technology. Pairing the...
IT Network Security: Mainframe Security Best Practices for Meeting Compliance Regulations and Minimizing Data Vulnerabilities
Considering that mainframes handle 68 percent of the world’s production IT workloads, mainframe security is a huge component of your overall IT network security. Mainframers recognize the...
IBM z15 – A New Member in the Multicloud Family
IBM announced the z15 mainframe on September 12, 2019. It’s a big deal in the mainframe world, and I was at IBM’s Poughkeepsie site on that day. I was there the whole week working with IBM’s...