IBM made its most aggressive move yet in its quest to make mainframes running Linux more affordable, launching an entry-level platform starting at $135,000.
IBM LLM AI: COBOL to Java ASAP ¦ ARM IPO is GO!
In this week’s #TheLongView: Translating legacy COBOL code to a slightly more modern language, and Arm will go public (again) next month.
FAA Ground Stop due to Technical Debt? | Don’t Do DIY Crypto!
In this week’s #TheLongView: The FAA’s NOTAM database gets corrupted, and Threema shows why DIY encryption is bad.
Cloud Migrations Demand Risk and Compliance Maturity
The COVID-19 pandemic brought undeniable disruptions for organizations and their employees whether business, personal or otherwise. Across the globe, businesses and governments alike were forced to try and manage these disruptions. For nearly all organizations, digitization initiatives were accelerated in a short period of time, from implementing work-from-home policies and launching new applications to support […]
Where is the Next Generation of Mainframe Talent?
Are we potentially facing a shortage of mainframe talent? “Three of us set up this tool in 1989. One is retired, and the other person is somewhere in heaven!” That was the remark of Alf (name changed), the senior mainframe architect at a large European enterprise, as he pointed toward the ceiling of the meeting […]
Enterprise Infrastructure: Adapt or Face Extinction
In my previous blog, I explored how new ways of working—DevOps, Agile, cloud and startup thinking—have brought in a tectonic shift in the ways of working of enterprises. For infrastructure leadership and management, this is nothing short of a perfect storm that they need to navigate. While these new ways have impacted every aspect of […]
Think of the Future When Building Delivery
We’re in a strange state of the pendulum swing right now, where speed of delivery is king and all else seems to take a back seat. Many orgs even place quality behind speed in the claim that “we’ll get it right later,” but I’m talking about the more universal rush to deploy and the infrastructures […]
DevOps in Legacy Systems: A Mission Impossible?
The word “legacy” evokes mixed reactions from the IT and business crowds alike. For those who depend on legacy systems such as the zSeries and iSeries platforms, it is a way to deliver stable and reliable applications into production. Business stakeholders who may not know the intricacies of the technology often take a view of, “Why […]
Good News: DevOps is not One-Size-Fits-All
Want to try something fun? Ask different groups around your organization what “DevOps” means. It’s fun because the odds are good you’re going to get very different answers, many of which will be vague, if not outright contradictory. This is perhaps unsurprising when even industry-recognized DevOps luminaries tout varying definitions, approaches, tools and methods. Here’s […]
DevOps and legacy system lessons from dwarf planet Pluto
If you’re a bit of a space geek like me, then maybe you’re one of the 243 thousand plus followers of #NASANewHorizons; diligently monitoring deep space twitter sphere for the latest news and pictures from dwarf planet Pluto. The success of the New Horizons project is incredible – especially when you consider it’s all been […]