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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

May TechPulse Recap: AI Is Everywhere in Concept, Not in Production

TechPulse asked IBM Power professionals about the state of emerging and adjacent technologies in their organization

CoderFlow: When AI Stops Suggesting and Starts Finishing

Profound Logic’s CoderFlow is not an AI coding assistant. It is not a copilot, a smarter autocomplete, or an IDE plugin. It is an enterprise-grade agentic coding platform that autonomously executes the full engineering workflow, compiling, testing, validating, and fixing code, then delivers verified, ready-to-commit outcomes for developer review. And increasingly, organizations are deploying the […]

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IBM and Red Hat Commit $5 Billion to Redefine the Future of Open Source in the AI Era

Project Lightwell establishes a trusted enterprise clearinghouse for open source software with a new AI-driven model for securing the software supply chain.

4 Foundational AI Capabilities for IBM i

Rick Hurckes, director of services at mrc, explains how to think about AI on IBM i (before you build anything)

Keeping AWS Cloud Costs Under Control by Preventing Waste

Why reducing waste matters more than cutting costs, and how architecture and governance drive long-term efficiency

IBM Bob Premium Package for i Gets June 24 GA: Here Are 5 Specialized Capabilities

IBM announces the general availability date for Bob’s Premium Package for i, which tailors the AI-driven development tool for IBM i users

What Is an Affinity Score and Why Does it Matter?

IBM i consultant Dawn May describes the importance of affinity scores as a measure of performance and explains how to review that data

Agentic AI Safety: 7 Essential Guardrails

Pat Stanard, Distinguished Engineer and chief mainframe architect for Kyndryl US, shares the most important safety measures for AI agents in the enterprise

The Operational Costs Hiding Inside AWS Environments

Why organizations often lack visibility into the costs of running workloads on AWS, and why those issues tend to surface over time

Project Glasswing Participation Extends IBM’s Security Efforts

As adversaries weaponize AI against the systems organizations depend on, IBM is putting cutting-edge defenses.

IBM i’s AI Advantage: The Ecosystem Stakes a Claim 

As a platform for AI, the OS has a leg up due to its comprehensive data sets, integrated architecture and unique user base, IBM i enthusiasts proclaim

The Grayframer’s Take on the AWS AI Practitioner Exam

Bruce McKnight explains what passing means, and what it does not

These Are the Mainframe’s Good Old Days: Mark Schettenhelm on IT Social Hour

Mark Schettenhelm, principal product manager at BMC, explains how mindsets on the platform are changing and why the mainframe is currently basking in a “golden age”

Overcoming the Semantic Gap in Mainframe-to-AWS Schema Mapping

Connecting enterprise data to cloud platforms is the first step—understanding what it means is the next challenge, Tim Bond of Adeptia and Rohan Gupta of R Systems explain

NetSPI Launches AI-Powered Continuous Pentesting

The human-led, AI-accelerated platform supports continuous penetration testing and agentic MCP integrations.

IBM i: Putting Integration Front and Center

Amy Williams, principal security services consultant at Fortra, explains how IBM i is evolving without sacrificing the core security and stability the platform is known for

IBM Announces Red Hat AI Inference and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Service on IBM Cloud

The new offerings are designed to enable enterprises to operationalize AI and securely run virtualized workloads at scale.

AI and the MainframeModernization Express Lane

How AI is aiding in mainframe modernization through code analysis, and why the mainframe’s “Legacy” is an advantage in scaling AI