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An Early Warning System for Ransom Attacks and Mainframe Breaches

Most mainframe sites can’t afford to be down for more than a few minutes—let alone the hours or days required to respond to a cyberattack with conventional processes. What is needed is an early warning system to detect and neutralize the most common forms of malicious attacks. The Benefits and Risks of Encryption Encryption can […]

Essential Strategies for Mainframe Modernization

IBM's Jason McGee and Rocket Software's Phil Buckellew and outline key considerations for maintaining the mainframe as a key element of your modern IT infrastructure

The Subtle but Significant Differences Posed by Power10 Hardware and the New HMC

Rob McNelly urges old dogs to learn new tricks and shares additional thoughts about the recently retired Nigel Griffiths

IBM Introduces Watsonx Code Assistant for Z

The generative AI solution is designed to expedite mainframe modernization efforts

Mainframe Security in the Age of AI

In theory, mainframe security should be easy—mainframes use RACF or similar products to control who can do what. However, security has never really been that easy, and today it definitely isn’t easy at all. The Challenges of Modern Mainframe Security First, mainframes aren’t little islands of computer processing anymore. They are intimately connected to the […]

When the Latest and Greatest Isn’t That Great

Rob McNelly on the challenges posed by some technological innovations, notes from IBM Support, and a shout-out to the newly retired Nigel Griffiths

The Glass Is More Than Half Full: From Attack to Defense

Vertali’s Mark Wilson discusses why it’s time to change the mindset around mainframes and cyber threats—making the platform part of every cybersecurity conversation in the organization

TechChannel Launches Ask the Experts Series

The TechChannel team is always working to deliver fresh and innovative content to our audience. That’s why we’re launching a new thought leadership initiative: Ask the Experts. Connecting You to Expert IT Insights The TechChannel Webinars Ask the Experts series connects our audience directly to technical experts and thought leaders through a 15- to 20-minute conversation […]

Six Defining Characteristics of z/OS and Mainframe

IBM Z mainframes and z/OS are important, still carrying out critical back-end processing after nearly six decades. But some things about mainframes seem strange. I mean, why the obsession with batch? And why do sites have so few z/OS systems? Let’s look at six characteristics of the mainframe and z/OS that help explain what it […]

Experts at IBM i Modernization

COMMON president Dawn May and CM First Group's John Rhodes discuss current trends and technologies to modernize RPG and COBOL applications on the IBM i

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