Broadcom – a mainframe charm offensive - And I found it pretty convincing
Knowledge in mainframes is of immense value and shouldn’t be lost. Mainframe modernisation – the right workloads on the right platforms – is the best story for businesses.
StorMagic – and some thoughts on the Broadcom takeover of VMware
StorMagic SvHCI is specialised for edge computing in small to medium-sized business environments, where it is an alternative to Broadcom’s newly acquired VMware.
Securing the mainframe with a layered approach - Thoughts prompted by a Broadcom presentation
Mainframes can be made very secure without too much effort, but people have to set policies, evaluate threats and configure mainframe security.
The Open Mainframe Project and some implications for ES-3
Mainframe modernisation is in a healthy state, facilitated by open source initiatives such as Zowe. David Norfolk blogs from the 2022 Open Mainframe Summit.
BMC acquires Compuware
BMC has just acquired Compuware, which complements BMC’s mainframe management capabilities with Compuware’s mainframe DevOps capabilities.
A new episode in the life of the Mainframe
These days, you should think of the mainframe as a very performant, flexible server with good parallel processing and virtualisation capabilities.
CA World 2016 - general impressions
CA Technologies is still customer focused and sees open source integrations and AI as strategic. Plus, cultural mores in general have moved forwar
Legacy, a reassessment - Legacy applications may be generating the profits that are paying for your innovation
Much of business is still running on legacy systems - if you just concentrate on innovation, you may die before it delivers.
The mutable mainframe
Despite appearances mainframes can be agile and can participate in DevOps and continuous delivery.
The Mutable Mainframe - the Mainframe is still very much part of the CA Technologies roadmap
The Mutable Business probably doesn't care much about what is behind its SLAs, as long as they're met. So, it might as well be a Mainframe.