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IBM’s watsonx Day 2 Focuses on AI Governance

Speakers at the virtual event emphasized the need to use AI responsibly and explained how AI can derive additional value from data

The Mainframe in the Age of AI

AI is revolutionizing the mainframe. In this e-book, the University of St. Thomas' Dr. Manjeet Rege and IBM's Rich Larin highlight how AI is pushing the mainframe forward—and how to ethically use AI

Essential Factors for ERP Success in 2024

If you desire to enhance your business processes and performance, diminish your IT expenses and labor costs, and furnish real-time data and reporting capabilities, you should contemplate implementing an ERP system. These are some of the top reasons enterprises pursue ERP systems, which gather various functions and departments, such as finance, operations, and human resources, […]

z/OS Performance Management: Humans Still Needed

Several months ago, I was telling my wife how amazing this ChatGPT thing was: I just gave it a description of a Bash script I needed, and it wrote code for me that was about 95% correct on the first try. She said she wouldn’t have guessed that my job would be among the first […]

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The Power of Preparedness: Harnessing Resiliency to Mitigate Mayhem

Business leaders today face significant challenges. Skyrocketing cybercrime, climate-related natural disasters, pandemics and geopolitical unrest to name a few. These threats are not only more frequent than ever; their impacts can also last longer. Mayhem like this is costly! For Fortune 1000 companies, downtime can cost over $1 million per hour. The average security breach […]

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Vertali zTrust: Detect Network Activity and Control Traffic to Enhance Cybersecurity and Compliance

zTrust reveals network activity to and from your mainframe, confirming that your network access controls are correct—and ensures access for authorized users only while denying everyone else. While mainframe sites can have a reasonable view of who is using applications at the userid level, most don’t have an accurate, up-to-date picture of actual network activity. […]

More on Mainframes and Open-Source Tools

Following on from my article looking at the value of open-source software on the mainframe, I thought it would be interesting to see what else was available for mainframers to use. Open Tools Community Let’s start with the z/OS Open Tools Community on GitHub. According to their website, z/OS Open Tools provides a package manager […]

The Evolution of Mainframe Education: A Follow-Up

Kyndryl works hard to provide opportunities for young people in the field of mainframe technology. Although many mainframers are approaching retirement, Kyndryl is smashing that paradigm. Last year, I wrote an article on the first Kyndryl Internship. I thought it was very important to pen a follow-up to that article, as this topic could not […]

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 […]

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