IBM Announces Machine Learning on System z

Last month IBM provided more details about their new Watson Machine Learning Initiatives starting with System z (WMLz). Beginning a new initiative with the mainframe platform is an interesting move for IBM. The new WMLz offerings:

Introduce an end-to-end enterprise machine-learning platform. Extracting core machine learning technology from IBM Watson, IBM is offering a new . . . → Read More: IBM Announces Machine Learning on System z

Helping Millennials Understand the Mainframe

Being a consultant specializing on performance issues exposes me to a wide variety and types of systems and platforms. Focusing on performance issues on a variety of platforms, cloud, distributed, and mainframe, I’ve realized they all have wonderful uniqueness and plenty of issues to keep me mystified, curious, and entertained. It is always interesting to . . . → Read More: Helping Millennials Understand the Mainframe

Five Data Management Trends for 2016

I want to thank all my readers for their support and comments this year. It has been a great year speaking at many of the user group meetings and, as always, a pleasure and honor working/hearing from all of you throughout the year. I believe information technology is going through another transformation which will especially . . . → Read More: Five Data Management Trends for 2016

Five Data Management Trends for 2015

‘Tis the holiday season, and I want to thank all my readers for their comments and encouragement. It has been a pleasure and honor working/hearing from all of you. I enjoy the challenges of data management too much, and my curious nature has me continuing to explore and write about all its aspects. Data management . . . → Read More: Five Data Management Trends for 2015

Four Ways to Help Millennials with the Mainframe

Thank you for all the comments on the mainframe and millennials blog entries from the previous weeks found here, here, and here. Validation of millennials’ . . . → Read More: Four Ways to Help Millennials with the Mainframe

Four Questions Millennials Don’t Want to Answer

When I work with millennials these days in all different management and programming duties, the experience is always very interesting. Each millennial has a very different point of view of IT and data processing. Even within the Big 4 consulting firms’ new hires, the college experience, IT degrees, consulting company training, and aptitude for IT . . . → Read More: Four Questions Millennials Don’t Want to Answer

Three More Reasons Why Millennials Benefit from Engaging with the Mainframe

Thanks for all the feedback from last week’s blog here on millennials and mainframe systems. This week I talk about what other attributes and ideas the millennials can get from the mainframe systems, their development, and the people who support the technology.

Millennials can learn corporate business rules from the mainframe. Some mainframe systems . . . → Read More: Three More Reasons Why Millennials Benefit from Engaging with the Mainframe

Four Facts Millennials Need to Know about the Mainframe

When I talk to millennials coming into management and programming it appears that their knowledge of the mainframe is very limited or non-existent. Since many universities have stopped teaching mainframe classes, the recent college graduates don’t even have a basic understanding of the mainframe computing model, much less its advantages and why it endures through . . . → Read More: Four Facts Millennials Need to Know about the Mainframe