by Craig S. Mullins | Jul 29, 2021 | cloud, data growth, mainframe, storage
Gain more value from your mainframe data with IBM StorageEvery year the amount of data that is created continues to expand. Analysts at IDC estimate that data will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 23 percent through the year 2025. Furthermore, efficient...
by Craig S. Mullins | May 10, 2021 | AI, cloud, conference, hybrid cloud, IBM Think, IBM Z, mainframe
A Bit about Think I am looking forward to attending the IBM Think 2021 conference, IBM's annual flagship technology event. I have attended several in-person Think events, as well as last year’s virtual conference, and I always come away with new knowledge and...
by Craig S. Mullins | Apr 7, 2021 | mainframe
I am older than the mainframe... I turned 58 on April 3rd, and the IBM mainframe officially celebrates its 57th birthday today, April 7th.The IBM 360 was launched on April 7, 1964 and the world of enterprise computing has never been the same.Here are a few links...
by James Cockayne | Feb 23, 2021 | mainframe
Starting with DB2 11.1 there is increasing support for using cloud object storage such as AWS S3 via remote storage aliases. As of writing support for remote storage aliases is limited to the INGEST, LOAD, BACKUP and RESTORE commands however, and requires local disk...
by Craig S. Mullins | Jan 7, 2021 | automation, autonomous digital enterprise, BMC, digital transformation, mainframe, operations, performance
Assuring the performance of your mainframe systems and applications is an imposing task that keeps getting more complex all the time. It makes sense to arm your IT performance analysts, DBAs, and systems programmers with modern tools so you can optimize performance...
by Craig S. Mullins | May 20, 2020 | AI, automation, cloud, conference, data, DB2, IBM Think, IBM Z, mainframe
This year’s IBM Think event was quite different than in past years. Usually, Think is an in-person event and attracts a lot of people, typically more than ten thousand IT executives and practitioners. But as we all know, this year with the global COVID-19 pandemic an...
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