Efficiency and safety are two of Wolverine Packaging’s highest priorities on every level of their business. Since its founding in the 1930’s, the family-owned Wolverine Packaging has grown into one of the largest US distributors of meat products to wholesale, retail, and food service industries. The dedication to quality that began over 75 years ago […]
This week in San Jose, I attended my first SHARE conference, both as an attendee and as a speaker. Having grown up in the world of business intelligence and analytics, it was interesting to get an insight into the world of the mainframe – and to meet many of the world’s leading experts in this […]
As CEO of Rocket Software I constantly think about modernization, which is why I’m in Silicon Valley this week for the SHARE conference – hosted by the world’s oldest enterprise IT user group. If that sounds like a fundamental disconnect, let me explain: I can’t remember a time when SHARE wasn’t on my radar. When […]
Banks don’t know where their money is. Think about that for a second. With so many ledgers and systems in place, no bank in the world knows exactly how much cash they have at any given moment – or exactly where it resides. That’s why they have to sync up all their systems every day […]
It’s no secret that performing analytics where the data is created and lives is the best solution. That’s because analytics can be done natively on the mainframe rather than requiring users to export data, crunch the numbers, and then return them to the main system. But mainframes were originally built to be programmed in COBOL […]
If you’re an engineer or programmer, you’ve no doubt experienced the chaos and confusion of multiple people working on the same piece of code at the same time. It’s not only disruptive, but sorting everything out wastes valuable time and resources. The good news (if you’re a mainframer) is that those problems are a thing […]
Mainframe data virtualization brings instant insight into a comprehensive view of your customer, driving revenue through repeat purchases, higher customer satisfaction, and customer acquisition. Our recent webinar, entitled Unlocking Revenue Opportunities with Mainframe Data Virtualization, with Bryan Smith, VP of Research and Development, and CTO, and Forrester’s Noel Yuhanna, Principal Analyst, serving Enterprise Architecture professionals explored and […]
Customers are the focal point of any business, and represent the best revenue opportunities. In financial services, the business trend of optimizing the customer experience touches every single function in the company. Delivering, servicing, and gaining insight from those customers requires a new level of IT infrastructure flexibility and real-time access to mainframe data. Virtually […]
I end up hearing many storage administrators vent about old data. In some cases, it’s old HSM data. In other cases, it’s data that should be deleted but out of an abundance of caution no one actually deletes it. The only option has been to buy more FICON-connected disk or tape, which fills up HSM […]
One of the barriers to entry for any new technology is entropy. Simply put, people are far too busy to take time out of their busy lives to learn new languages and new skills unless they have a compelling reason to do so. And it’s not just about staying up to speed on the latest […]
