Direction IT Issue 8

by | Apr 17, 2018 | DirectionIT

Read the latest issue here. A common thread that seems to run through every meeting I attend lately is that of the need, want, and desire for data, as well as the proliferation of data. And this leads to a myriad of challenges in today’s new data-driven economy. From...

Come See Us at Discover Technata

by | Mar 27, 2018 | Corporate News

Organized by the Kanata North Business Association, the Discover TechNATA Career Fair is a Tech Expo and Talent Hunt event that offers local businesses the opportunities to exhibit their products and services and recruit talent. As Canada’s Largest Technology Park and...

Mainframe Batch Challenges—And Solutions

by | Mar 15, 2018 | Opinion

The ancient datacenter game of tug-of-war between the need for more computing power, and the need to more closely control ongoing IT costs is never-ending, and continues, as intensely as ever, in today’s large business datacenters. And with the mainframe enclosed...

High-Performance In-Memory Technology

by | Mar 1, 2018 | Opinion

Maximizing mainframe performance Maximizing mainframe system performance is an ongoing process, and amounts to a full-time job both for IT organizations running mainframe systems and for IBM. The z/OS operating system and the venerable Db2 database form the backbone...