The mainframe computer has been around for more than a half-century now, and in defiance of the expectations of many tech pundits, it continues to play an indispensable role in today’s IT...

Blockchain is one of the hottest tech buzzwords. Mainframes, although still very much alive and well, ceased to be a hot topic decades ago. You might not think, then, that blockchain and mainframes...

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...

Mainframes originated in the 1950’s – longer ago than many people reading this. If mainframes are so old, why do they remain an important IT resource across so many industries? Why do we...

Mainframes are arguably the most secure computing platform available today. That does not mean, however, that there are not extra steps that you can take to add even more security to your mainframe....

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...

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...

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...