This is the 11th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the ...

A user-friendly monitoring and diagnostic tool can help you avoid bottlenecks and downtime in the central mainframe transaction and connectivity engine. IT environments are increasingly complex to ...

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 ...

Quick question: What is more than 60 years old, but still spry enough to beat the best mid-range clusters at big data? If your answer was the mainframe, then you're correct. By a virtual show of hands ...

News Mainframes plug into SOAs By ADT Staff April 17, 2006 SOA Software has begun shipping its Service-Oriented Legacy Architecture or SOLA, a platform that exposes CICS mainframe apps as Web services ...

Big Blue's new z990 is the most significant machine so far in the company's effort to marry the largely unique capabilities of the mainframe computer to prevailing computing trends. Stephen Shankland ...

Normally, for this column, I would write a technical article or something on leadership. However, Big data and the impact of analytics on large quantities of data is a trend that is here to stay. The ...