We at the Open Mainframe Project were blown away by the enthusiasm and community support at our inaugural Open Mainframe Summit. We are finishing up the event transparency report, which will provide a full breakdown of the event. Here are … Continue reading Open Mainframe Summit review…

We hear a lot of buzzwords in the industry right now, almost as if the buzzword engine is running on jet fuel.  In your role as a senior leader in the IT function, how do you cut through the noise and … Continue reading Hybrid Multi-Cloud – The New Reality

On this day five years ago IBM launched LinuxONE, a new family of mission-critical Linux-only servers.  In this blog, we plan to give you a behind the curtain view of how IBM brings to market a new product, discuss some … Continue reading LinuxONE is 5 Years Old Today!!!

You might have heard the buzz. Fully Homomorphic Encryption or FHE for short. An IBM Invented technology that has been slowly marching towards viability for over a decade. The math is complex, the engineering challenging, and many problems related to performance and memory consumption … Continue reading Fully Homomorphic Encryption comes to your Mainframe

I used to sell Itanium based systems running HP-UX back during my time at HP in the early 2000s so I have fond memories of how I was able to compete with confidence, knowing that I had a robust solution … Continue reading Death of HP-UX and Itanium

Breaking News: According to numerous top tier press articles literally, dozens of high-profile checkmark verified accounts, including those of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian West, and Elon Musk as well as prominent Bitcoiners seemed to be compromised by … Continue reading Twitter Hack – How it could have been avoided

In the 2nd part of this two-part mini-series, I plan to cover how LinuxONE is a credible alternative to Oracle Exadata. If you want to read part 1 of the blog series where I covered the demise of Oracle’s SPARC based … Continue reading Alternatives to Oracle Hardware Platforms – Part 2

This is the first part of a 2 part mini-series covering the transition clients are making from Oracle hardware platforms to more open source-based systems. This first blog will cover the demise of Oracle SPARC based systems running Solaris Since the … Continue reading Alternatives to Oracle Hardware Platforms – Part 1

Confused? You have been We’ve all heard of 20:20 vision. The ultimate in clarity. Ironic then perhaps that 2020 is rapidly becoming the year for confusion and chaos and that we’re all secretly begging for 2021 to make haste. Not … Continue reading Have you fixed your view?

In parts 1 and 2 of this blog series Steven Dickens covered his views on when to buy LinuxONE and when not to.  In this blog, I plan to cover a more technical perspective on where LinuxONE is a good … Continue reading 9 out of 10 times you should NOT buy LinuxONE – Part 3