Direction IT Issue 8
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
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
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
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...
Webinar on Demand: Gaining Financial Support for IT Business Case
Do you need help getting your IT project approved by finance? Watch our on demand video with DataKinetics’ CFO Randy McCoy and learn how to: Link performance to finance Identify the financial benefits of your IT project Prepare for project risk assessment and...
Webinar on Demand: How IT Can Turn Digital Disruption in to a Competitive Advantage
Digital Disruption is something that you should be very concerned about. It’s everywhere; the tools are readily available—sometimes free—and disruption is being felt by your business partners and your competition. More importantly, some of your customers are becoming...
Webinar on Demand – Db2 Professionals – Understand Your Impact on Capacity Planning
Many companies use some form of Workload License Charge (for example, Advanced WLC) to determine the monthly cost of their IBM products (the Monthly License Charge, or MLC). The products subject to MLC include z/OS, IMS, CICS and Db2, among others. Typically,...
Four Ways Mainframe Shops can Embrace Mobile – Part 5
Create New Interfaces for Existing Assets This is the final installment of a five-part series about how mainframe shops can embrace the needs of new mobile workloads. Last time, we looked at a solution that would replace the existing online processing and add new...
Four Ways Mainframe Shops can Embrace Mobile – Part 4
New Online Processing and Data Storage Last time, we looked at a new online processing solution that would replace the existing online processing, but leverage all other parts of the legacy infrastructure. In this post, we’ll take a close look at a similar solution...
Four Ways Mainframe Shops can Embrace Mobile – Part 3
New Online Processing Last time, we looked at the forklift option: burning the legacy infrastructure to the ground and building it back up again using different technology. In this post, we’ll take a close look at an alternative solution that leverages some of what...
