AIOps Is Here: Why You Need It Now
Downtime and system outages carry average two-year costs of $67.2 million per enterprise, according to a recent Ponemon Institute study. Direct outage costs such as system administration and support typically pale in comparison to indirect, long-term costs such as lost productivity and revenue, and a damaged brand reputation. Virtually every business function relies on IT performance and […]
Pair Snowflake with Precisely Connect to Eliminate Data Gaps
Snowflake has garnered attention for its architecture which allows for the separation of storage and compute which allows each piece to scale individually. In turn, it helps people share data in real time. Despite Snowflake’s unique architecture, you might find that Snowflake cannot readily understand complex data from legacy sources. How can you solve this […]
The Top Seven Reasons to Marry Machine Learning and Your Mainframe
Machine learning (ML) has come to the mainframe, and with it the ability to analyze (and monetize) mainframe data in place. “Mainframes generate a massive volume of useful but overwhelming data that enterprise IT organizations often fail to fully leverage,” says David Hodgson, Chief Product Officer, at Precisely. A major part of the problem is […]
Sort Gets No Respect but Wields Speed Secrets
Quiz: Name the mainframe computing process that: Consumes as much as 20-25% of all CPU cycles but is generally ignored when optimizing mainframe resources Is one of the most-covered topics in introductory computer science classes, but tends to be ignored once school is out…and Includes processing types referred to as injection, histogram, merge, quick, radix, […]
The Ultimate Guide to Mainframe Machine Data: SMF Data & Beyond
There are a number of different data sources that are available within the IBM z/OS® mainframe (mainframe machine data) that can be leveraged to provide insight into the operational health of the system and applications as well as providing visibility into security and compliance issues. The primary data source is the System Management Facility (SMF) […]
The Top Mainframe Predictions for 2020
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 landscape. In doing so, it’s had to adapt to many waves of technological change over the years. The pace of innovation continues to […]
Why IBM Wants to Marry Your Blockchain and Your Mainframe
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 have much to do with each other. But you’d be wrong. There are some interesting potential use cases involving blockchain on mainframe […]
Why Mainframes are Secure (And How to Make Them Even More Secure)
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. What makes your mainframe inherently secure, and what can you do to make it even more secure? Keep reading for an overview […]
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 in 2020 If your data center is like many others, you have several important applications that rely on […]
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 started producing them. But during the past couple of decades, some organizations deemed mainframes to be so old and outdated that quite a few institutions […]
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 performance team. That day, when we were having lunch together, their engineers’ excitement was too obvious for me to […]