What AWS Availability Zones Really Mean for Resilience
June 16, 2026
Recent outages have highlighted the importance of understanding how AWS Availability Zones, Regions and failover strategies affect cloud costs and business continuity
ArticlesFrom Noise to Intelligence: How Taxonomy Is Essential to AI for Mainframe Operations
June 8, 2026
For the first article in their series, "Rise of the Agents," Clea Zolotow, Marci Formato and Alfredo Iglesias of Kyndryl discuss why flooding AI systems with unstructured or poorly classified information is insufficient
ArticlesTime to Kill the ‘Legacy’ Label Once and For All—Here are Some Better Terms for IBM Z and IBM i
June 4, 2026
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
ArticlesWhy Mainframe Data Is Becoming the Most Valuable Data in the Enterprise
June 2, 2026
Craig Mullins outlines the factors that make mainframe data a strategic asset, including operational discipline, data gravity and AI readiness
ArticlesWhy Linux on IBM Z Continues to Grow
June 1, 2026
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
Agentic AI Safety: 7 Essential Guardrails
May 21, 2026
Pat Stanard, Distinguished Engineer and chief mainframe architect for Kyndryl US, shares the most important safety measures for AI agents in the enterprise
ArticlesThe Operational Costs Hiding Inside AWS Environments
May 20, 2026
Why organizations often lack visibility into the costs of running workloads on AWS, and why those issues tend to surface over time
ArticlesWhen Cloud Is Better Than Mainframe (and When It’s Not)
May 19, 2026
Broadcom Mainframe Software CTO George DeCandio stresses that hybrid IT success depends on picking the right environment for the right workload
ArticlesThe Grayframer’s Take on the AWS AI Practitioner Exam
May 15, 2026
Bruce McKnight explains what passing means, and what it does not
PodcastsThese Are the Mainframe’s Good Old Days: Mark Schettenhelm on IT Social Hour
May 14, 2026
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"