Remote work seems like a new concept for many of us, but it was already gaining momentum well before the COVID-19 pandemic. The advent of the internet and personal computing made it possible, and the increasing digitization of our world made it inevitable. Between...
The mainframe’s appearance in the mainstream computing inevitably comes in one of two flavors: it’s either the signifier of a sophisticated hack in Hollywood, or it’s serving as a scapegoat for organizational misgivings like that of the New Jersey...
Predictions of the mainframe’s demise were a dime a dozen in the 1990s. Fortunately for anyone who uses credit cards, insurance, air travel, and 92 of the top 100 banks — essentially everyone — IBM ignored the memo. The reality is that IBM Z continues to thrive. The...
The mainframe skills gap is no secret, and its existence shouldn’t be a surprise, either. In the 1990s, new computer science students were turning away from COBOL and Fortran and looking to the future of Python, Java, and Ruby. It didn’t help that many experts were...
