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...

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...

Has cloud computing killed mainframes? You might think so. In fact, mainframes remain supremely important, even in the age of the cloud. Here’s why. It’s easy enough to understand why one...

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...