No one can afford downtime. There’s a problem, though: infrastructure is incredibly complex. There are many systems and networks that depend upon one another to support a single business...

Mainframes were developed long before anyone was thinking about the trends and technologies that define modern computing. Concepts like open source software were decades away from emerging when the...

I don’t like to admit how long it took me to embrace the cloud. Fortunately for me, I was already a cloud believer by the time I saw Snowflake, so I was ready to appreciate what a game changer it...

Precisely has released a new technical white paper, Ironstream for Splunk® Data Model for Mainframe, which is now available for download. The IBM mainframe is a mature computing environment. This...

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...

Cloud computing did not become a tech buzzword until about a decade ago. But in effect, lots of organizations were deploying infrastructure that provided the same benefits as the cloud long before...

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...

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...