It’s a Trap
As the new Star Wars movie approaches, I recall how much I enjoyed the movies when I was a young boy, and I’ve been watching Star Wars all over again with my sons. The classic scene in Return of the Jedi where Admiral Ackbar cautions “it’s a trap!” caught my ear even...
Webinar on Demand – Evolution of Big Data and Your Marketing
It is no surprise that the real-world application of Big Data has become an integral part of the marketing ecosystem. After all, having the luxury to create true predictive modeling, then pairing that model with advanced marketing automation tools presents an entirely...
Webinar on Demand: Managing IBM Monthly License Charge Without Impacting Performance
One of the biggest challenges in IT today is to balance a flat budget with increasing workloads and more stringent SLAs. And a big part of that is managing of the IBM Monthly Licence Charge (MLC). How can you handle growing workloads on z when you’re doing everything...
Webinar on Demand: Extending Your Mainframe by Leveraging zIIP Processors
Disruptive IT forces such as Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud and Internet of Things are forcing IT organizations to integrate their existing mainframe with newer distributed applications. There are a variety of integration techniques but before starting an...
Webinar on Demand: New IBM Licensing: Understanding Country Multiplex Pricing
Most people involved with mainframe systems for large IT organizations are keenly aware of the impact that IBM licensing has on the monthly IT budget. It is a significant line item in the IT budget—maybe the biggest. Well, there is some good news – IBM is making some...
Webinar on Demand: SMAC IT
How Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud, Internet of Things disrupts and changes business in real-time Long gone are the days when corporate IT strategy remained predictable. In today’s social-media driven business world—where topics and headlines go viral in minutes,...
Three Things I Would Start Doing Today to Help Me Save IT Budget for Tomorrow
I am lucky enough in my job to get opportunities to meet with some pretty senior people in the IT industry from the Fortune 500. Saving money is a funny thing to talk about at times. It seems like it is an obvious thing. Surely the best companies in the world must...
Introducing DataKinetics’ New Suite of Comprehensive Solutions to Vastly Extend Performance, Optimization, and Security to IBM Z System Mainframe Users
VTS Edge: Ultra-fast Data Integration Solution IT organizations running mainframe systems have an urgent need to integrate their newest distributed applications with their legacy mainframe applications and associated mainframe database data. The solution has not...
Getting Off That Mainframe – Or Maybe Not!
Historically, IT organizations have abandoned the mainframe platform for cost reasons. It’s a fact, and there’s no getting around that; it’s true. Now whether that makes sense or not is another matter. Howard Rubin has mentioned that 68% of production workloads is...
Mainframe – The Dinosaur on the Cutting Edge
There was a time, quite a while ago now, when there were serious IT executives announcing that the mainframe was obsolete, overpriced technology and that it’s days were numbered. It was a dinosaur. But these folks weren’t well informed, and perhaps had certain biases...
