Questions from a CFO after Z Day 2022
Tuesday April 5, 2022 was a great day to be part of the mainframe community. As you may have seen on the wire, that was the day IBM “unveiled IBM® z16™, IBM's next-generation system with an integrated on-chip AI accelerator—delivering latency-optimized inferencing....
IBM Champions 2022 Announcement
DataKinetics is honored to announce that our company's Chief Product Officer, Larry Strickland, has been recognized as an official IBM Champion. This award is direct recognition of Larry’s longstanding championing of the mainframe and his deep subject matter expertise...
Performance management and capacity planning on IBM Z in a hybrid cloud world
Organizations are drawn to the promise of AIOps to leverage AI-driven Intelligence and automation to make quick and accurate decisions to maintain resiliency. AIOps uses artificial intelligence to simplify IT operations management and accelerate and automate problem...
From traditional IT operations to AIOps
AIOps is a trending topic within the hybrid and complex IT landscape. And in fact, many companies already started their journey to AIOps. They have more and new requirements for IT operations. From our experience working with China and ASEAN Pacific customers, we...
Blockchain And The IBM zMainframe: A Match Made In Heaven
It’s probably 9 out of 10 times that things like BITCOIN and such other cryptocurrencies come to people’s mind when they hear the term “BLOCKCHAIN“. And, why not? BITCOIN was what resulted in the Blockchain technology hogging the limelight in the modern digital...
The IBM Mainframe: The most powerful and cost-effective computing platform for business
Many of we mainframe pundits have written about the robustness, power, perseverance, capacity and more importantly, the cost-effectiveness of the mainframe (Allingham, Sun, Peleg), including myself. But what about showing the superiority of the mainframe using real...
Modernization of Monitoring and Observability in a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
Introduction Organizations are drawn to the promise of AIOps to maintain resiliency by leveraging AI-driven intelligence and automation for quick and accurate decisions. AIOps uses artificial intelligence to simplify IT operations management through acceleration and...
A Quick Look Back – The (NOT) Demise of the IBM Mainframe
Just a few months ago, we passed a mainframe anniversary, of sorts. Sometime in March 1996, the IBM mainframe was supposed to be finished in the world of computing. Its end was pronounced– or rather predicted – and a precise date was given. Stewart Alsop, a head...
Modernizing Mainframe Access for the “New Normal”
Many enterprises that rely on IBM mainframes were caught out when the pandemic hit as they were not set up to enable large numbers of staff to access applications remotely. However, the enforced switch to home working has provided the much-needed impetus to evaluate...
Websphere Application Server – Now An Essential Part of z/OS
To many, z/OS is a legacy operating system where ‘old school’ technologies like CICS, COBOL and batch reign. Java, not so much. But tools and platforms usually found on Linux and Windows servers are now, not only present on z/OS, but mainstream. An example of this is...
