LzLabs reached out to discuss my article, "Applying 'Software Defined' to Mainframes." They thought the article didn't fully capture what they were doing, and wanted to provide a more detailed ...

A short while ago, I wrote an article discussing a recent BMC-sponsored study that focused upon mainframe use within enterprises. This study came to the conclusion that mainframe use is likely to ...

Kristine Harper was a high school senior when she took her first mainframe class. Six years later she’s a professional mainframe programmer and platform evangelist to young people beginning their IT ...

Sabre Holdings Corp., the air-travel software company, has an ambitious set of objectives for the remake of its “shopping engine,” a 25-year-old mainframe application with 10 million lines of ...

The work is fulfilling, the tools are state-of-the-art, and demand for mainframe-literate developers has never been greater If you’re an ambitious developer, you probably tend to follow industry buzz ...

Art Louise is like many mainframe professionals. He has three decades of experience with systems and programming languages such as Cobol and assembler that remain critical in data centers but aren’t ...

The CICS (Customer Information Control System) application server, which runs on the IBM mainframe, processes 1.1m transactions per second, significantly more than the number of Google searches. Yet ...

Some twenty-five hundred to three thousand years ago, a young man named David slew a giant called Goliath. For that he was made king. When it comes to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (DRBC), ...