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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 

IBM i AI Contest Opens Doors for Pennsylvania College of Technology Students

The new IBM i technologists spent two months developing agentic AI integrations before mingling with seasoned pros on the conference circuit

3 (More) Foundational AI Capabilities for IBM i

Rick Hurckes, director of services at mrc, shares how AI can fill gaps in IBM i environments that used to be addressed with workarounds and tribal knowledge

Modernization on IBM Power: Is Europe Ahead?

With Common Europe Congress 2026 coming up, outgoing Common Europe President Juan Manuel Alcudia goes on IT Social Hour to reflect on the state of the continent’s IBM Power community

From Noise to Intelligence: How Taxonomy Is Essential to AI for Mainframe Operations

For the first article in their series, “Rise of the Agents,” Clea Zolotow, Marci Formato and Alfredo Iglesias of Kyndryl discuss why flooding AI systems with unstructured or poorly classified information is insufficient

COMMON Europe Congress Proves You Still Need People

Juan Manuel Alcudia, outgoing president of COMMON Europe, and Steve Bradshaw, longtime member of the COMMON Europe Advisory Council, reflect on the state of the IBM Power community on the continent

Time to Kill the ‘Legacy’ Label Once and For All—Here are Some Better Terms for IBM Z and IBM i

Jen Nelson, CEO of Izzi Software, laments the harms caused by IT ignorance and suggests alternatives to the misnomer that has plagued IBM i and IBM Z

Tricentis Report: 60% of Global Organizations are Shipping Untested Code as AI Accelerates Software Development

Why Mainframe Data Is Becoming the Most Valuable Data in the Enterprise

Craig Mullins outlines the factors that make mainframe data a strategic asset, including operational discipline, data gravity and AI readiness

In IT, There Are No Points for Humility

Rob McNelly on the importance of giving credit where due, a guide to NPIV setup and more

Why Linux on IBM Z Continues to Grow

Continuing his series, “The IBM Z Experience,” Joe Gulla explains how IBM achieves enterprise‑grade open source at mainframe scale, and why the market demands it

Europe’s IBM Power Wishlist: Steve Bradshaw on IT Social Hour

Steve Bradshaw, a longtime member of the COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC), discusses the top priorities of the European Power community