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 But during the past couple of decades, some organizations deemed mainframes to be so old and outdated that quite a few institutions […]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 […]