If you run an IBM mainframe today, you have to choose between two great operating systems options to power it:  Linux vs. z/OS. How do you decide? Here’s a guide to choosing the right...

IBM systems have long been viewed as being highly secure by design. However, it can be very risky to rely too heavily on the reputation of IBM i or z/OS to guard against a growing range of...

Year after year, Splunk’s annual .conf event is highly anticipated by customers and partners alike. As a proud Splunk partner, it’s always inspiring for our Precisely team to hear new data-driven...

In decades past, you could perform common integration tasks on a scheduled basis, in batches of information copied from point A to point B every minute, every hour, or perhaps even daily or weekly....

Ever wonder why companies like IBM are still selling mainframes? Hint: It’s not because they’re living in the past. It’s because the mainframe is still crucial in a number of...

What is a mainframe? One of the best ways to answer that question is to explain what makes mainframes different from other types of computers – especially servers you’d find in a data center....

If your company is like 70% of the Fortune 500, it continues to use mainframes for its most business-critical IT workloads. In such organizations, finding ways to get more bang for the mainframe...

Historically, when business users talked about data and data analytics, they were referring to structured data. There are two reasons for this. The first is that in the past, the most important...

Virtually every successful business today relies on IT systems that can remain up and running 24×7. Downtime is expensive, and as computing plays a more critical role in so much of what we do,...