Mainframes have been the workhorses of the corporate data center for more than half a century. With the advent of new technologies such as the cloud and low-cost x86 commodity servers, many tech...

If you think mainframe programming languages are all relics of the past, think again. Contrary to popular belief, mainframes remain alive and well, as do the programmers who write code for them. And...

IBM i in the cloud opens up a new world of possibilities for high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). Real-time logical replication offers ultimate flexibility, providing a faster,...

If you’re using ServiceNow and have traditional IBM environments, there’s an excellent chance that ServiceNow can’t discover them. That’s a problem, because there’s still quite a bit of...

IBM IMS (Information Management System) is a database and transaction management system that was first introduced by IBM in 1968.  While IMS is still widely used in Fortune 1000 and global...

To properly manage your company’s IT infrastructure, it’s essential to have timely information about events happening within the environment. Key IT management objectives, such as maintaining...

Over the past several years, Splunk has become a definitive leader in analyzing log data, giving its customers the power to turn the insights from this machine data into action. Splunk enables users...

Many of the world’s largest companies are still running their most critical business applications on mainframe computers. Leading enterprises in banking and finance, insurance, retail, and...

Are mainframes the same thing as supercomputers? Not at all. Ask a person on the street to explain the difference between mainframes and supercomputers, however, and you might hear the two terms...