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Author: StevenDickens3

Steven has built a career in Specialist Sales and Client Management for organisations such as CA, HP and latterly for IBM over the last 20+ years with a strong focus on bringing new technologies to market. Steven currently leads a global team focused on selling IBM's LinuxONE technology to new clients. Steven is an avid supporter of using social media tools to increase customer engagement and awareness, he is also on the board of the Open Mainframe Project a Linux Foundation collaborative project. When he's not engaging others online, he can be found cycling or corralling his four daughters to join him watching his beloved Leicester Tigers play rugby.
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Fully Homomorphic Encryption comes to your Mainframe

August 11, 2020August 12, 2020 StevenDickens3

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

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Death of HP-UX and Itanium

July 21, 2020July 21, 2020 StevenDickens3

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

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Twitter Hack – How it could have been avoided

July 15, 2020July 16, 2020 StevenDickens3

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

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Alternatives to Oracle Hardware Platforms – Part 2

July 10, 2020July 11, 2020 StevenDickens3

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

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Alternatives to Oracle Hardware Platforms – Part 1

July 10, 2020November 30, 2020 StevenDickens3

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

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Have you fixed your view?

July 8, 2020 StevenDickens3

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?

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9 out of 10 times you should NOT buy LinuxONE – Part 3

June 19, 2020June 20, 2020 StevenDickens3

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

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LinuxONE the perfect choice for your UNIX migration

June 5, 2020 StevenDickens3

Today’s IT organisations are still managing in-house infrastructure and applications while also being asked to manage ever-increasing business demands and deal with external challenges that a few months ago were not even on the radar oftentimes without additional resources. Many … Continue reading LinuxONE the perfect choice for your UNIX migration

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9 times out of 10 you should NOT buy LinuxONE – Part 2

May 28, 2020June 4, 2020 StevenDickens3

In the first blog of this 2-part mini-series I put forward the analogy that choosing server and cloud consumption models was analogous to transportation. Commodity x86 servers were the car in my analogy, public cloud was represented by Uber and … Continue reading 9 times out of 10 you should NOT buy LinuxONE – Part 2

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9 times out of 10 you should NOT buy LinuxONE – Part 1

May 28, 2020June 4, 2020 StevenDickens3

Don’t worry this is not a clickbait blog post where we pivot from the title that got you to click in the first paragraph, I am serious, you should NOT buy a LinuxONE server from IBM for 90% of your IT … Continue reading 9 times out of 10 you should NOT buy LinuxONE – Part 1

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