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Creating a Containerized Application on Z: A Step-by-Step Guide

In this edition of ‘The IBM Z Experience,’ Joe Gulla extends a banking application consisting of CICS transactions and data in Db2 databases

Why Your Enterprise Data Isn’t Good Enough for AI, With Craig Mullins

Craig Mullins, author of “The Cost of Good Enough Data: Why Modern Architectures Fail at Scale,” goes on IT Social Hour to explain how AI is changing data management standards

Simplify PowerVC Installations by Installing the PowerVC Appliance

Installing PowerVC has never been easier than with the new PowerVC appliance. Introduced with PowerVC 2.3.2, the PowerVC Virtual Appliance (PVCVA) packages all of the required software components into a single deployable image. Instead of manually installing and configuring each component, the appliance comes pre-configured and pre-tested, making PowerVC quicker and easier to deploy while […]

Mainframe Master Innovations: Automation and Mainframe Compliance

Power11 Lineup Welcomes Entry-Level S1112

The newest member of the Power11 family comes with up to 10 cores, in rack-mounted and deskside tower configurations

Transition Architecture: Modernization’s Missing Discipline?

Inspired by road construction season, veteran enterprise architect Bruce McKnight explains why the modernization journey deserves as much attention as the destination

An IBM Bob Early Adopter Shares Tips and Tricks

Rael Rodning, principal intelligent operations architect at Evolving Solutions, joins Andy Wig on IT Social Hour to share guidance on token efficiency, context management, security and more

NetSPI Expands Suite of Human-Led, AI-Powered Continuous Pentesting Services as Organizational Attack Surfaces Grow

IBM Announces Smaller z17 and LinuxONE 5 Configurations

As enterprises reckon with a data center squeeze, the new hardware brings the mainframe to a new type of customer

Why Observability Is Becoming a Hybrid Cloud Imperative

As applications increasingly span mainframes, on-premises systems, containers and AWS services, enterprises need a unified approach to monitoring and logging

IBM’s Mainframe Certificate Course Is Full of Surprises, Even for a ‘Grayframer’

Veteran mainframer Bruce McKnight discovers the value of re-examining platform fundamentals with fresh eyes

Craig S. Mullins Announces New Book: The Cost of ‘Good Enough’ Data: Why Modern Architectures Fail at Scale

The veteran database expert and technology author warns of a growing crisis of data debt that threatens AI initiatives, increases operational costs, creates compliance risks and undermines business decision-making.

When AI Learns From Bad Enterprise Data

It’s not about the models, the agents or the RAG. It’s about the information you feed to these tools, Craig Mullins writes

June TechPulse Recap: HA/DR Confidence More Common Than Full Validation

For June, TechPulse asked IBM Power professionals about the state of their high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) environments, surveying 33 IBM Power professionals on the state of their HA/DR posture. The results point to a community that feels reasonably good about its recovery readiness in the abstract, but that confidence confidence softens once the […]

Options for Dynamically Increasing LUN Sizes

Rob McNelly explains the process of mapping storage through VIOS to IBM i partitions

Modernizing IBM i Document Workflows: Why Replacing AFP is the Next Step for Productivity

Organizations looking to modernize IBM i document workflows are increasingly evaluating alternatives to traditional AFP-based development because of maintenance costs, staffing challenges, and growing demands for dynamic digital distribution. Modernizing document workflows shouldn’t be a burden on your development team. Transitioning to a dedicated forms management solution like TLAForms allows organizations to bridge the gap […]

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IBM Announces 1 nm Chip Breakthrough

The new nanostack architecture enables 0.7 nm chip architecture and a 50% performance gain over 2 nm chips, according to projections

Choosing an AWS EC2 Instance: Where to Start

Choosing the best IT infrastructure depends on a host of factors, and it’s getting more complex by the day

Joseph Gulla’s New Book, ‘A Mainframe Computing Reader’ Available June 26

Originally appearing as a series of TechChannel articles, “A Mainframe Computing Reader” is for those new to the platform as well as technologists who want to update their knowledge

IBM, Red Hat and Palo Alto Networks Expand Project Lightwell to Help Organizations Respond to Software Vulnerabilities

Enabling Modern Mainframe DevOps With Containerization and Kubernetes

‘The IBM Z Experience’ continues as Joe Gulla illustrates how containerization and Kubernetes represent the convergence of ‘then’ and ‘now’

Rise of the Agents Part 2:  How Mainframe Teams Work Today

In the second article of their series on agentic AI, technologists from Kyndryl define the strengths, silos and strain that characterize the traditional mainframe operating model

Avoiding the AI Cognitive Atrophy Trap

Data and AI expert Dr. Fern Halper goes on IT Social Hour to discuss what organizations need to be considering as machines take over human cognitive tasks

What AWS Availability Zones Really Mean for Resilience

Recent outages have highlighted the importance of understanding how AWS Availability Zones, Regions and failover strategies affect cloud costs and business continuity

How COMMON Is Positioning Itself for the Next Generation 

User group President Peggy Tuttle and Executive Director Manzoor Siddiqui discuss efforts to attract new members and the decision to co-locate NAViGATE with IBM TechXchange