After half a century of strength, the mainframe has a few looming obstacles to overcome. The platform will soon face a moment of reckoning brought on by an impending skills shortage, and 79% of respondents to Deloitte’s 2020 Mainframe Market Pulse Survey said...
For the last twelve months, the coronavirus has turned our business world upside down in ways that no one could have predicted. At the same time, one thing remains woefully dependable: Monthly License Charges (MLCs) that are billed based on each Logical Partition...
In our October 2020 webinar with IBM Systems Magazine, Reg Harbeck, chief strategist of Mainframe Analytics, Ltd., explained that innovative IT departments will be looking to the mainframe for inspiration as Moore’s Law and the reliable hardware improvements it...
According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Moore’s Law is all but finished. He’s been saying as much for the past few years, and he has a point. As transistors and other computer chip components get closer and closer to the atomic scale, increases in processing power are...
As enterprise computing needs continue to grow and capacity fails to keep pace the way it has in years past, organizations are faced with a watershed decision. To meet current and future needs, they can either modernize existing mainframe infrastructures that have...
Cloud Compiling’s methodology for moving workloads for COBOL compiling to the cloud might seem new but the company and the method have been around for almost 20 years now. In spite of its relative lack of notoriety, the solution has been installed at some of America’s...