Category: Mainframe

In this latest Futurum Live! From the Show Floor, Futurum’s Senior Analyst Steven Dickens talks with 21st Century Software’s CEO Nicholas Pachnos about 21st Century’s efforts to connect with younger generations entering the IT workforce, where they fit into the mainframe, and how AI is affecting their modernization agenda.
In this latest Futurum Live! From the Show Floor, Futurum’s Senior Analyst Steven Dickens talks with Rocket Software’s Phil Buckellew about Rocket’s hybrid cloud approach to solving modernization challenges, their broad portfolio and deep technical expertise, and what makes them a viable long-term strategic partner.
In this latest Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series, Futurum’s Senior Analyst Steven Dickens talks with BMC Software’s David Jeffries about BMC’s efforts to transform the developer experience.
In this latest Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series, Futurum’s Senior Analyst Steven Dickens talks with BMC Software’s Tony Anter and Mark Schettenhelm about the importance of improving the mainframe developer experience.
In this episode of Futurum Live! From the Show Floor, Futurum Research Senior Analyst Steven Dickens talks with Model9's Chief Strategy Officer, Eddy Ciliendo, during the SHARE Conference in Atlanta. Their conversation covered Model9's success in 2022 and how they reached 100% customer retention.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his top five predictions of what 2023 will have in store for the mainframe platform. As the macroeconomic climate's headwinds get stronger, many mainframe-centric enterprises will have to be more pragmatic toward ambitious mainframe modernization projects. Dickens looks ahead to the five technology trends he sees shaping the mainframe market in 2023 and beyond.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the recent fines issued by the UK Banking regulator on the high street bank, TSB. A botched migration in 2018 by UK bank TSB resulted in a significant impact on customers and ultimately in huge fines resulting from that impact. We look at the lessons that can be learned for organizations considering such huge migrations and modernization projects.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest updates from rapidly growing mainframe software vendor Model9 in collaboration with market-leading cloud provider AWS. As enterprises look to embrace a hybrid multi-cloud strategy, data migration and management become key. Model9 is looking to simplify and address the concerns of enterprises focused on mainframe data.
On this episode of The Main Scoop, co-hosts Greg Lotko and Daniel Newman are joined by Meral Temel, Mainframe Platform Leader at JFORCE, to discuss the opportunities and risks when pursuing an operational excellence strategy to achieve the highest levels of service to customers.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements from Google Cloud focused on mainframe modernization, which will rely on partnerships with the likes of Santander and Micro Focus. As enterprises look to address the challenges of digitally transforming systems of record and consider migration to the cloud, it’s not a simple process. Dickens covers some key things organizations need to consider when evaluating this next step in their digital transformation journeys.
On this episode of The Main Scoop, co-hosts Greg Lotko and Daniel Newman are joined by April Hickel, Vice President of Intelligent z Solutions Strategy at BMC to discuss the success factors for reimagining the customer experience in driving growth and better business outcomes.
Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of BMC Exchange 2022. As BMC looks to deliver solutions to address the challenges facing its enterprise customers, the company is well placed with robust offerings in service management, automation, and mainframe. Moving forward, the company just needs to further define its vision, and then be strategically vocal in how it articulates this vision to the C-Suite.

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