Are you a cloud holdout? Increasingly, businesses that are still holding out find themselves in the minority as companies transition from existing infrastructures to the cloud to be more ‘tech nimble’ and responsive. In a ten-year span between 2017 and 2028, Fortune Business Insights forecasts the cloud market will balloon to $390 billion, a 1200 […]
Today, Rocket Software released its 2022 Survey Report: The State of the Mainframe, which surveyed over 500 U.S. IT professionals in firms using mainframes to uncover their priorities, challenges and plans for leveraging their mainframes going forward. In an era of business fixated on digital transformation, where does the mainframe fit into modern operations? According […]
Today’s marketplace demands IT systems that are integrated and work seamlessly together to maximize productivity. Customers and employees need user-centric workflows and experiences, but often IBM® i or IBM® Z platforms are trapped in silos. These mission-critical applications align with how IT is built, not how users — internal or external — engage with businesses […]
This week, Rocket unveiled an updated Rocket® Open AppDev for Z solution, which breaks down existing siloes to unify DevOps for all platforms, including the mainframe, in a single pipeline. Open source is the future of software development and production, and with this update, customers are better able to access that future. The enhanced offering […]
For years, businesses that use mainframe technology have been seeing their seasoned professionals retire. Now, companies are struggling to find new talent to fill this skills vacuum, and when they do, it is difficult to properly train them without those established experts to offer guidance. One of the challenges is the market focus on newer coding languages, meaning young people interested in IT careers have a misconception […]
Recent developments continue to underscore the importance for organizations to maintain high availability and disaster recovery capabilities. Since the pandemic began, an unending wave of cyberattacks and data breach events have caused crippling outages for businesses large and small. The shift to remote work has only intensified the impact of these threats by making disaster […]
The mission-critical technology powering banking, airlines, insurance companies, the hospitality industry, delivery services, and more, IBM Information Management System, better known as “IMS,” processes an estimated 265 billion transactions today. In fact, if you live a modern life, it’s pretty much impossible not to interact with it. Despite that fact, most people aren’t aware of […]
Now, more than ever, electricity is an important part of our everyday life. From powering light and appliances to ensuring life-saving medical equipment can operate uninterrupted, we depend on electricity to run our modern societies. And with more people than ever working from and staying at home, electricity is what connects us all. For electricity […]
For more than 25 years, Rocket Software has been a trusted, strategic IBM partner. With our shared goal of modernizing legacy systems, we’ve collaborated on solutions and products for Z and Power Systems. In 2020, we also had a record number of IBM Champions, representing our expertise in data, AI, and IBM Z. This was […]
With unprecedented demand for public services during the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. government agencies have had to improve their IT applications. But IT issues also impact employees, and it’s important to keep internal IT systems updated and working efficiently. In uncertain times, this can help reassure employees that they will be taken care of, no matter […]
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