What is big data, really? Despite what the term implies, the definition is not actually about the size of your data. It’s how you use the data.  What is the big data definition? When it comes to...

Can you do DevOps on your mainframe? That might seem like a silly question. DevOps is among the newest trends in IT, and mainframes are an established, “legacy” technology. Pairing the...

Building a data infrastructure is one thing. Building one that is efficient, reliable and cost-effective is another. What can you do to optimize your data infrastructure and keep it running at peak...

You hear a lot about data quality these days. But much of the discussion focuses on data quality at a high level, without much attention to what data quality looks like in a real-world context. This...

Considering that mainframes handle 68 percent of the world’s production IT workloads, mainframe security is a huge component of your overall IT network security. Mainframers recognize the...

If you work with Big Data, you might not think DevOps has much to do with you – and vice versa. But you’d be wrong. Here’s why Big Data and DevOps make sense together. What is DevOps?...

IBM announced the z15 mainframe on September 12, 2019. It’s a big deal in the mainframe world, and I was at IBM’s Poughkeepsie site on that day. I was there the whole week working with IBM’s...

In today’s world, ensuring that the data your business depends on for its daily operations is always reliably up-to-date is an absolute necessity. That’s why two relatively new technologies,...

The National Retail Federation (NRF) says that this year nearly half (49%) of the US population will do a special outing for Dad. Many of these outings – visible via PlaceIQ’s own Landmark...