You might have vast amounts of data, but how complete is it? Complete data gives you a fuller picture of your business. Moreover, having complete data helps you make truly informed business...

At least once a year I sit down to watch one of the many televised marathons that happen in cities all around the world. Recently, as the helicopter camera panned away to show thousands of runners at...

Downtime and system outages carry average two-year costs of $67.2 million per enterprise, according to a recent Ponemon Institute study. Direct outage costs such as system administration and support...

This article on avoiding cloud vendor lock-in was originally published in Enterprise Tech Journal. Part one of this two part post focused on the separation-of-concerns designs principle and designing...

According to the recent PwC Data Trust Pulse Survey, 86% of executives believe they are in a race to extract value from data, and a Forrester global research report indicated that 92% of data...

Quiz: Name the mainframe computing process that: Consumes as much as 20-25% of all CPU cycles but is generally ignored when optimizing mainframe resources Is one of the most-covered topics in...

Today, Precisely announced its new partnership with Databricks to help organizations liberate data from a diverse set of silos – mainframe, IBM i, on-prem Hadoop, Oracle, and more – and leverage...

There are a number of different data sources that are available within the IBM z/OS® mainframe (mainframe machine data) that can be leveraged to provide insight into the operational health of the...

The mainframe computer has been around for more than a half-century now, and in defiance of the expectations of many tech pundits, it continues to play an indispensable role in today’s IT...