A new episode in the life of the Mainframe
These days, you should think of the mainframe as a very performant, flexible server with good parallel processing and virtualisation capabilities.
Legacy, a reassessment - Legacy applications may be generating the profits that are paying for your innovation
Much of business is still running on legacy systems - if you just concentrate on innovation, you may die before it delivers.
A new IBM z13s “enterprise-class server” - for when even Cloud fashion victims might rather like a mainframe.....
The new z13s server from IBM brings the security of data encryption on the cloud for midsize companies, without slowing down system performance.
CloudStack and OSS generally
Report from a CloudStack collaboration conference
So, what do I really think of the mainframe today?
Mainframe futures.
I wish the mainframe would hurry up and die! So we can get on with using System z.
The modern System z is so much more than the mainframe as envisaged by people who've never used System z.
Managing metadata
A new metadata management tool
Mainframe: Alive and Well!
A BMC survey that should be read by everyone, not just mainframe specialists
Enterprise server 3.0 – zEnterprise BC12
A new z mainframe arrives - and I wonder why it still seems to be a specialist choice for many companies
Innovate 2013 – IMS and IT fashion
IMS isn't as fashionable as Hadoop, but it's still useful, for the right applications. How often does IT ignore useful tools simply because fashion moves on?