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Years after the introduction of cloud computing, it is interesting that security continues to be the top inhibitor to broad scale cloud adoption. So it stands to reason, that if you want to reap the benefits of cloud computing, while addressing the top concerns or security and minimizing risk, that you would select a platform with a reputation for secure architecture, hardware security, operating system integrity, strong security controls, data protection controls, application security, and virtualization isolation.  It makes sense to develop your cloud computing platform on an industrial strength, scalable, secure foundation – the system z modern mainframe . The mainframe offers many advantages for cloud computing. Below are nine advantages that you should consider: 1.    Flexible infrastructure:   System z supports a variety of highly secure virtualized environments for cloud implementation including the z/VM operating system running v...

Large commitment comes with a need for cost optimization. In order to increase your mainframe ROI, follow these strategies: 1. Virtualize Your Mainframe Workloads Even though commodity servers support virtualization, mainframe offers an unparallel support for virtualized workloads. A single mainframe is capable of supporting as many as 8,000 virtual machines. When planning your mainframe architecture, try to take full advantage of virtualization. Virtualization makes workloads more portable and scalable and helps ensure that your mainframe’s capacity is not under-utilized. 2. Consider Linux for Mainframe The best feature of mainframes is that they can run Linux-based software environments as well as native mainframe environments. Taking advantage of Linux as a host environment for some of your applications on your mainframe can significantly reduce your overall operating costs — especially because Linux on the mainframe makes it possible to move some of your appli...

As digital transformation efforts drive change across the enterprise, the  mainframe  team finds itself at an inflection point. For organizations that have mainframes , these platforms have long been handling the core transaction processing at the heart of their businesses. Today, however, IT leaders face skills retention challenges as mainframe experts rapidly retire. Furthermore, the business challenges facing mainframe teams today are inevitably centered on strategic digital transformation initiatives. The result: CIOs must make the critical decision regarding the role of the mainframe in their digital efforts. The challenge today is bringing the mainframe into the modern IT context – modernizing its tooling, interfaces, and people to make the venerable platform an essential enabler of modern digital initiatives. Nevertheless, such an investment is absolutely critical, as the mainframe will continue to drive the business. Efficiency, reliability, and stability ...

Mainframe technology providers are refusing to be left in the dust in a digital modern world where speed is everything, and everything is moving to the cloud. While a majority of the industry views mainframes as legacy, dated, old or irrelevant technology, many companies and initiatives are turning their focus to modernizing the mainframe.  Top priorities for organizations include application availability, modernization, cost reduction, data privacy and security. The mainframe’s strengths lies in its ability to provide security, stability, availability and scalability to core parts of our society such as banking, transportation, healthcare, finance and insurance, according John Mertic, director of program management for the Open Mainframe Project at the Linux Foundation. “For companies all over the world, the power of the mainframe is critical to the success of their enterprise transformations. As they transform toward cloud deployment models, many rely on the traditional...

Businesses now operate in a world of 24/7 online activity, where 7 billion devices are connected and talking to one another, and 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated every day. In addition, customers are constantly communicating with you, making the need for more effective data management strategies a growing priority. Finding better ways to build and maintain a more flexible, scalable IT infrastructure has become critical to sustaining enterprise innovation and growth.  Fortunately, solutions are easier and more affordable than in years past, but companies need to learn how to use all the data they collect. For most organizations, it’s not just about finding more versatile, reliable, and secure ways to manage information. It’s also about finding better ways to put this information to work.  Design for Growth To successfully compete in today’s market, start by taking a holistic view of the data you plan on collecting and working with and consider all the w...