I don’t like to admit how long it took me to embrace the cloud. Fortunately for me, I was already a cloud believer by the time I saw Snowflake, so I was ready to appreciate what a game changer it...

Precisely has released a new technical white paper, Ironstream for Splunk® Data Model for Mainframe, which is now available for download. The IBM mainframe is a mature computing environment. This...

Streaming data pipelines enable companies to process large amounts of information from a wide variety of sources across the enterprise. However, these pipelines are still a recent innovation for many...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...