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Redefining Digital Transformation

Perhaps the biggest challenge with digital transformation lies in understanding where the transformation occurs. Digital transformation doesn’t begin or end by offloading workloads or moving core systems to the cloud. It doesn’t come about through the development a cool customer-facing app. Paralleling its philosophical forerunner, DevOps, the process of digital transformation begins by looking inward. […]

The Future of Now: SHARE’s New Memberships and Digital Innovations

Now that we are three years into the post-COVID environment, new realities and challenges have emerged for people, businesses and organizations. SHARE’s members and volunteers have been working hard to meet them head on, and SHARE looks forward to continuing the evolution of the organization in 2024. In addition to continuing to provide the gold […]

DEI Panel Connects Mainframe’s Working Generations With One Another

There are currently five different generations making up today’s workforce, and each of them brings unique backgrounds and perspectives. Though beneficial in a vacuum, generational differences can divide us in both the workplace and beyond. At the SHARE New Orleans conference in August 2023, Broadcom and the Making Our Strong Community Stronger initiative (MSCS) held […]

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

Glenn Hanna on Linux Workloads on the Mainframe

This transcript is edited for clarity. Reg Harbeck: Hi, I’m Reg Harbeck and today I’m here with my friend and colleague Glenn Hanna, who is the director of software engineering at PKWARE and happens to also own his own Rhode Island-based navy. I’m sure that will come up in our conversation. Welcome, Glenn. Glenn Hanna: […]

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, […]

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 […]