John Shuman

Mainframe Master Innovations: Automation and Mainframe Compliance

Optimizing FICON for Hidden Mainframe Cost Savings

John Shuman, retired Distinguished Engineer, points to a major opportunity across mainframes—enhancing efficiency of port/channel environments

Hybrid Cloud Is the Future of the Mainframe

In 1897, the New York Journal published a rumor that Mark Twain was dead. Hearing the news, Mark Twain is said to have replied, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” I have had the occasion to use it many times when discussing mainframe over the past 30 years. My first encounter with mainframe […]

Mainframe Insights: Storage and Performance

Legend has it that when Michelangelo was asked how he managed to sculpt the statue David out of a block of marble, he responded that he chipped away at everything that did not look like David. Legend notwithstanding, this is a simplified description of Kyndryl’s approach to managing systems. Only instead of marble, we concern […]

How Air-Gap Backup and Tape-Based Technology Protect Against Cybercrime

Cybercrime is a prevalent topic in today’s news. It’s changing the way business is conducted to maintain data integrity and protection from theft. Data is the life blood of any organization; cybercriminals seek to exploit data from human as well as security vulnerabilities inherent to the software or hardware structures. Much of corporate data today […]

3 Points to Consider When Modernizing IBM Z

IT executives are increasingly under pressure to manage and create disruption. Application development is proceeding at a fantastic rate and users are clamoring for broad new capabilities. Major databases for large corporations end up in the back end on secure, high-speed IBM Z* servers. But many of them are running applications developed decades ago. Enter […]