With the advent of distributed processing and the cloud, many predicted that the mainframe would eventually fade away. In fact, just the opposite is happening. According to a recent survey, the...

The mainframe scene remains vibrant. Yet mainframe training resources can be tough to find. As young mainframe programmers can attest, few university computer science departments teach mainframe...

Gartner reports that integration work accounts for half of the time and cost of building a functioning digital platform. Why does data integration take up so much time and money? There are several...

Machine learning (ML) has come to the mainframe, and with it the ability to analyze (and monetize) mainframe data in place. “Mainframes generate a massive volume of useful but overwhelming data...

Raise your hand if this situation sounds familiar: you need to make a decision right away based on the most accurate, up-to-date information. However, the information resides in a number of different...

To the consternation of IT professionals everywhere, data security challenges continue to evolve each year. Precisely’s Annual Security Survey for 2019 highlighted the challenge of the adoption...

Each year Database Trends and Applications magazine (DBTA) compiles a list of trend-setting data management and analysis products. These are the solutions the magazine believes best fulfill “the...

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...