Compuware is rising from the ashes of its spinoffs. - Perhaps there really is money in mainframes14th May 2016David Norfolk Compuware looks like it is going for growth afterall....
The mutable mainframe15th March 2016Philip Howard Despite appearances mainframes can be agile and can participate in DevOps and continuous delivery.
A new IBM z13s “enterprise-class server” - for when even Cloud fashion victims might rather like a mainframe.....18th February 2016David Norfolk The new z13s server from IBM brings the security of data encryption on the cloud for midsize companies, without slowing down system performance.
Synergies with the Mutable Business - prompted by Agility and APIs at CA World 201516th December 2015David Norfolk Synergies amongst new CA announcements.
Workload automation, IT’s little secret2nd October 2014David Norfolk Workload automation and job scheduling as a way of producing business outcomes
Bring mainframe SOA APIs into management17th January 2014David Norfolk SOA Software has extended its Lifecycle Manager to cover the mainframe
I wish the mainframe would hurry up and die! So we can get on with using System z.25th November 2013David Norfolk The modern System z is so much more than the mainframe as envisaged by people who've never used System z.
CA World 2013 Fytte 2 – Mainframe Application Virtualisation25th April 2013David Norfolk Applogic has now been ported to z mainframes
Mainframe Knowledge Transfer14th March 2011David Norfolk Mainframe systems are important and the latest mainframes are innovative and powerful tools. This places a premium on knowledge transfer and training.