New Year, Old Stuff; And New…

What can I say? I’m an old guy and I like old stuff. The best example of this is my 1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass convertible. I bought it about 10 years ago, a little bit before my 50th birthday. I’ve had older cars before – in my 30’s I had a beautiful 1968 Camaro – that...

Mainframe Pricing: Endgame

IBM Simplifying Mainframe Software Pricing When you hear the words mainframe software pricing, what do you think of? A common reaction is to ignore it unless you are actively negotiating a new contract with IBM. And even then, the general consensus is that it is...

Getting a Client in Trouble Out of Trouble

Recently, we helped one of our clients – a large investment bank in America—to “find” 30 million dollars per year—money that they weren’t able to obtain for technical reasons—when we helped them get it, it was like found money to them. Before our association, they...

DataKinetics @ SHARE 2019

March 10-15, 2019 | Phoenix Convention Center Visit Us at Booth #200 SHARE Phoenix is where you can find the latest in enterprise IT education. With 500+ sessions focused on enterprise IT’s hottest topics such as Pervasive Encryption, Cloud Technology in the...

Controlling Costs, or Leaving Money on the Table?

I am the CFO of one of the most long-lived mainframe software companies on the planet. The company has been around for 40+ years, it has been profitable for almost all of that time, and its products are running in the mainframe datacenters of many of the world’s...