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2024 TechChannel Rising Stars Nominations Are Now Open

TechChannel Rising Stars recognizes those who have worked on IBM Z or Power Systems for 5 years or fewer but are already making a big impact

3 Companies Leading Innovation at COMMON POWERUp 2024

How Fortra, Profound Logic and CloudFirst are leading innovation on IBM i, from AI to cloud and beyond

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A Global Community Pushes the Mainframe Forward

The IBM Z community makes the mainframe a vibrant, innovative platform; from new talent entering the ecosystem to seasoned professionals ready to pass on their knowledge, the community continues to evolve and meet the needs of the future

‘A Fascinating Piece of Machinery’

Truth: Sabine Diemt, a Learjet pilot and IBM Champion, said those words about the mainframe

The Value of IBM Education, the Opportunity to Interact

Rob McNelly looks ahead to this fall's IBM TechXchange event

Mainframe Skills Council Brings the Community Together to Keep the Skills Momentum Going

IBM's Meredith Stowell on how the IBM Mainframe Skills Council is helping organizations bridge the shrinking mainframe skills gap

i Can Homecoming: Upcoming COMMON Events

My fans may have noticed a lack of i Can blog posts recently, particularly in the latter half of 2023. I apologize and confess that the main reason for my absence is I simply needed a break. The i Can blog started in 2009, and after over 13 years of regular postings, writer's block hit […]

Peg Tuttle to Host TechChannel PowerTalk Podcast

With the new year come new initiatives for TechChannel. The recent retirement of Paul Tuohy, former host of the iTalk With Tuohy podcast, means two changes are happening to the podcast: a new name and a new host. Starting in January 2024, IBM Champion Peg Tuttle is taking over as host of TechChannel’s sponsored IBM […]

2023 TechChannel Rising Stars

Meet the 2023 class of TechChannel Rising Stars, who have worked on IBM Z or Power Systems for five years or less but are already making a big impact on the mainframe and IBM i ecosystems

Continuity and the Mainframe Ecosystem

I was just chatting with a colleague from a small mainframe software startup, and we were brainstorming about how to get organizations that have mainframes to wake up and invest in the future of the platform. During our conversation, I mentioned the “Mainframe Continuity Planning” white paper I’d written in 2004 about the need to […]