If you think mainframe programming languages are all relics of the past, think again. Contrary to popular belief, mainframes remain alive and well, as do the programmers who write code for them. And...
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...
Over the past several years, Splunk has become a definitive leader in analyzing log data, giving its customers the power to turn the insights from this machine data into action. Splunk enables users...
Many of the world’s largest companies are still running their most critical business applications on mainframe computers. Leading enterprises in banking and finance, insurance, retail, and...
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...
How will the mainframe industry change over the next decade? Will mainframes even still be around? The short answers to those questions are “a lot” and “almost certainly.”...
You know that big data involves lots of information. But have you ever stopped to think about just how much, exactly, goes into it? In other words, how big is big data, actually? Defining big data...
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....
If your company is like 70% of the Fortune 500, it continues to use mainframes for its most business-critical IT workloads. In such organizations, finding ways to get more bang for the mainframe...
