‘Being in a Minority of One Did Not Make You Mad:’ The Only Mainframer in the Room
November 29, 2021
How often have you been in a meeting where you explain the power and capabilities of the mainframe to a room full of intelligent people, who just don’t get what you are saying? And in your mind, you recall a similar meeting, perhaps three years previously, where a different group of people ignored your recommendation […]
ArticlesIBM Announces IBM z/OS V2.5
July 28, 2021
According to an IBM Institute for Business Value study “Application modernization on the mainframe” released today, 71% of executives surveyed say mainframe-based applications are central to their business strategy; and in three years, the percentage of organizations leveraging mainframe assets in a hybrid cloud environment is expected to increase by more than 2x. With this in […]
ArticlesThe Pandemic and Modernizing Your Mainframe
July 21, 2021
The press often seems filled with stories about how mainframes were first available in the 1960s and implies that the technology hasn’t advanced since then—ignoring the fact that cars and jet planes are even older, and they can be seen to be updated all the time. So, why wouldn’t mainframes have been updated to give […]
ArticlesWhen Technology Sneaks Up on You
October 27, 2020
Rob McNelly gets a new laptop and relearns an important lesson: While you'd expect technology to progress, it's still worth noticing.