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John Shuman

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John Shuman is VP, Distinguished Engineer for Core and zCloud U.S. at Kyndryl.

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Hybrid Cloud Is the Future of the Mainframe

John Shuman

November 29, 2023

In 1897, the New York Journal published a rumor that Mark Twain was dead. Hearing the news, Mark Twain is said to have replied, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” I have had the occasion to use it many times when discussing mainframe over the past 30 years. My first encounter with mainframe […]

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Mainframe Insights: Storage and Performance

John Shuman

March 24, 2022

Legend has it that when Michelangelo was asked how he managed to sculpt the statue David out of a block of marble, he responded that he chipped away at everything that did not look like David. Legend notwithstanding, this is a simplified description of Kyndryl’s approach to managing systems. Only instead of marble, we concern […]

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How Air-Gap Backup and Tape-Based Technology Protect Against Cybercrime

John Shuman

February 10, 2021

Cybercrime is a prevalent topic in today’s news. It’s changing the way business is conducted to maintain data integrity and protection from theft. Data is the life blood of any organization; cybercriminals seek to exploit data from human as well as security vulnerabilities inherent to the software or hardware structures. Much of corporate data today […]

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3 Points to Consider When Modernizing IBM Z

John Shuman

April 25, 2019

IT executives are increasingly under pressure to manage and create disruption. Application development is proceeding at a fantastic rate and users are clamoring for broad new capabilities. Major databases for large corporations end up in the back end on secure, high-speed IBM Z* servers. But many of them are running applications developed decades ago. Enter […]

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