In a recent blog, I outlined how I saw the further strides being made by IBM with the launch of the new z13 mainframe. This blog aims to underline why this matters so much to today’s digital … Continue reading z Systems: Accelerating Business Success
The year 2020 has brought with it the crisis generated by the Covid-19 pandemic, new arguments for which digitalization and the provision of personalized and digital services are vital for the continuation of a business, regardless of the field in … Continue reading Banking Soft Programs in 2022: New technologies on the road to digitalization
Zed’s dead, baby.” These may be the immortal words of a motorbike wielding Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction, but also some of the first words uttered to me when I made the decision to move into the System z … Continue reading “Zed’s Dead Baby”- The relevance of the mainframe to modern computing and IT trends
Containers provide isolated runtime environments for applications: the entire user space environment is exclusively presented to the container, and any changes to it do not impact other … Continue reading Virtualization vs. Containerization
It’s spring and in college towns across the country that means one thing: it’s graduation season. A time for family, celebration, and tons of … Continue reading 1,001 Reasons Why The Class of 2015 Should Consider a Mainframe Career
A few years ago we at Sine Nomine Associates (SNA) were approached by a major ISV who was after a Linux distribution that they could use to create and distribute appliances without having … Continue reading ClefOS on LinuxONE and Linux on z Systems
Have you ever gone through any documentary of Bill Gates? Well, if you have gone through, you would have come across the fact that, at a very young age, Gates was able to run … Continue reading A College Student’s Passion for Learning z/OS
As we are approaching the end of an unusual year, a difficult 2020 with a global pandemic and high unemployment that has disrupted the lives of so many people, I’m reflecting on some of the positives that we can take … Continue reading zHyperLinks and the jump to Hyper Space
At one point in the movie ‘Back to the Future’, Doc (Dr. Emmett Brown) tells Marty “If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour….you’re gonna see some … Continue reading Back to the Future, Mainframe I/O and the Need for Speed!
This is the second in a series of posts reflecting on the history of storage attachment for the z Systems mainframe platform, for more details on … Continue reading In the Beginning… a History of the I/O channel
With IBM’s announcement of new Pervasive Encryption capabilities, the Z world meets the modern reality of cybersecurity head on, with all its myriad threats … Continue reading IBM’s security game-changer reverberates through the Z world — and beyond
