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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS — The mainframe skills shortage is emerging as subtly as gray hair. It’s bumping up training costs and raising concerns among data center managers who wonder how they will replace retiring ...

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 ...