In a recent whitepaper, we talked about some of the advantages remote work can hold for both employers and their employees. Now, the crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus means that remote work has gone from a nice-to-have luxury to a non-negotiable necessity....
Computing “experts” were predicting the demise of the mainframe as early as the late 80s. Decades later, the joke is on them. Big Iron continues to process billions of daily transactions, powering 70% of the Global 500 with a mean time between failures...
As mainframes continue to reliably process billions of vital transactions around the world every day, few laypeople are aware of the approaching iceberg. There’s a troubling skills gap ahead, and the resulting deficit of mainframers could very well leave Big Iron with...
15 years ago, there weren’t many career counselors espousing the opportunities of the mainframe. Mainframes were seen as outdated behemoths from an earlier era of computing, and many experts adamantly (and loudly) predicted their demise. It’s no surprise in that kind...
Automating application code quality will be paramount as more DBAs and developers leave the mainframe workforce in the next decade. The mainframe is here to stay, but DBAs and developers are retiring. Veteran mainframe developer and father of DB/IQ Colin Oakhill...
