Cloud POS Adoption Skyrockets in Retail Equipped With AI-Based Capabilities
April 1, 2021
Until recently, the go-to solution for most brick and mortar retail stores to save their point-of-sale (POS) data, including product price lists and transaction records, was local platforms. These include a range of solutions, from on-premises PCs or servers to larger service provider network servers. However, many retailers have been making a shift towards online […]
ArticlesMarketing Mainframes: A Q&A With Maemalynn Meanor
March 31, 2021
If you know anything about Zowe, the open-source mainframe initiative spearheaded by the Open Mainframe Project, it’s probably because of Maemalynn Meanor, senior PR and marketing manager, The Linux Foundation. Meanor has been managing Zowe communications since day one and has been helping share the open mainframe story to mainframers, open-source enthusiasts, and the rest […]
ArticlesMainframes and Cloud Computing
March 29, 2021
We all know what mainframes are—the best and most secure, scalable, and available computing platform—but what exactly is the cloud? Cloud computing started off as design idea on diagrams for unspecified routing and hardware, that the viewer didn’t need to worry about. The important parts of the diagram were around the cloud. More recently, the […]
ArticlesWhy Having a Backup and Recovery Plan Improves IBM i Vitality
March 26, 2021
Monitoring the vitality of your IBM i system is a cornerstone of keeping your business running 24-7. A key component of IBM i’s vitality includes recovering quickly after a disaster with the least amount of disruption to your customers and revenue streams. Debbie Saugen has heard all the excuses for why a company isn’t prioritizing […]
ArticlesExploiting IBM i in a Hybrid Cloud Enterprise Architecture
March 26, 2021
Dominick Pagnotta’s career has come full circle. He began working in IT “well before Windows and Linux,” he says, and first developed applications on AS/400, or even its predecessors. He watched as technology evolved, but now, as CIO of Rochester Drug Cooperative, he oversees new employees developing applications using modern languages on IBM i. Learn how […]
COBOL: What’s XML Got to Do With IT?
March 24, 2021
When I first encountered the works of Thomas Aquinas, which I’m embarrassed to say wasn’t until the beginning of my Master’s degree, commenced 29 years after I completed my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, the first thing I thought was, “This could be put into XML!” Little did I know that XML was a direct […]
ArticlesTeaching Enterprise Technology Skills With a Bootcamp Model
March 23, 2021
John Thompson, CEO, Mobile Collaborative Education Consulting (MCEC), and Cameron Seay, Ph.D. adjunct instructor at East Carolina University, appear to have very different careers at first glance. Thompson is a retired IBM senior manager and Tennessee State University (TSU) brought his company on board to leverage his expertise in the technology sector and the continually […]
ArticlesStanding Pat Is No Longer an Option With the HMC
March 19, 2021
New POWER9 servers running new firmware won't work with your old HMC. Rob McNelly explains why, and provides some upgrade options.
ArticlesExtend the IBM i Administration Runtime Expert With Custom Plug-ins
March 18, 2021
Creating custom plug-ins for Administration Runtime Expert extends functionality
ArticlesCOBOL Supports the World’s Business Operations
March 17, 2021
“Fine wine gets better with age,” or so the phrase goes. Oddly, this aphorism also in a way applies to COBOL. It was great when it was developed, but over the 60-plus years it’s been around, it’s actually improved in some ways, even enabling many companies to enter the digital age. Reports suggesting hundreds of […]