I look back at my mainframe days very fondly. Hired to be a GIS code monkey on VM/SP, I would up also managing our machine, applying PUTs and even performing the upgade from VM/SP 5 to VM/SP 6--heady ...

Not so fast. Mainframes have more staying power than most understand. Let’s look at the realities of mainframe technology and the people who operate it. One of the things that has often driven me nuts ...

Around a third of modernisation projects that lift and shift mainframe workloads to a distributed architecture often fail, according to a regional executive at Rocket Software. In an interview with ...

Ric Lewis tells us he’s on a jet lag schedule, but he’s not tired at all. Because all of the excitement of his India teams, and the innovations that he’s seen the teams do, he says, is just so ...

Suppose there’s a shortage of a particular IT skill set. We all know what happens, don’t we? Those skills become hot. Training courses spring up. Salaries go through the roof. And the one thing that ...