IT departments must be able to respond to an array of requirements critical to the organisation. To be successful they are expected to leverage leading-edge IT to provide services and support their citizens, customers and business partners like never … Continue reading How Mainframe-as-a-Service Delivers Agility, Innovation and flexibility, while Driving Down Costs
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
CThis week, the Terminal Talk guys sat down with Steven, LinuxONE Global Sales Leader to talk about his favorite system and how this exciting offering fits into the broader ecosystem … Continue reading Terminal Talk Interview with Steven Dickens on LinuxONE
Poughkeepsie NY’s Marist College wouldn’t be where it is today without the mainframe, and nobody knows that better than CTO Harry Williams, who makes sure the college is always prepared for … Continue reading Terminal Talk Interview with Harry Williams: Marist College CTO and SHARE President
Amazon have announced today a new strategic relationship with IBM for the supply of IBM’s LinuxONE servers following Monday’s Prime Day Outage – The newly announced … Continue reading Amazon and IBM Announce LinuxONE Server Partnership
I’ve had the privilege of working on several open source projects during my time at IBM and during my time as a customer. There is a new project called Zowe that is hosted as a sub-project of the … Continue reading Zowe. OpenSource for z/OS, really?
CICS is one of the most widely used pieces of middleware on the Z platform. So why is it so hard getting a straight answer about what it is and what it does? Thankfully, we’ve got Chris and Mark here to talk about why … Continue reading Terminal Talk: All About CICS with Chris Poole and Mark Cocker
When a hacker finds something interesting, it makes sense to pay attention. That’s why we love sitting down with Chad Rikansrud, aka Big Endian Smalls, and find out what he’s been up to since our last chat. Topics range from … Continue reading Terminal Talk: Hack to the Future with Chad Rikansrud
In this 2 part blog series I plan to cover some of my own perspectives on the Red Hat acquisition and what it means for IBM as we enter what Ginni oft calls Chapter 2 of the Cloud … Continue reading Open is Smart: IBM + Red Hat
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
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
