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Daniel Newman

A Look at the Role of IBM Z in Digital Transformation – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series

In this special episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast — Interview Series, Futurum's Daniel Newman talks with IBM Z’s General Manager Ross Mauri about the future of IBM Z, digital transformation and what’s ahead for the tech industry.
Daniel Newman

The Magic In Optimizing App Modernization: Finding the Right Approach for Each Workload – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series

In this special episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast — Interview Series, Futurum's Daniel Newman talks with IBM Z’s General Manager Ross Mauri about the secret to successful app modernization.
Steven Dickens

IBM Z Launches on IBM Cloud Simplifying Hybrid Cloud App Modernization

Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements this week from IBM’s mainframe team. With the IBM Z team bringing to market the capability for customers to develop and test z/OS workloads to the IBM Cloud, Dickens examines the wider competitive landscape and the implications for IBM’s overall cloud growth.
Steven Dickens

IBM Launches IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Center in its Continued Focus on Mainframe Modernization

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest announcements coming out of IBM focused on the mainframe platform. With customers increasingly facing tough choices as they look to either modernize or re-platform mainframe applications, IBM is looking to better inform key decision makers with a curated portal to provide relevant information to the C-Suite, architects and developers.
Steven Dickens

AWS Announces Mainframe Modernization Acceleration Program in Partnership with Micro Focus

Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements coming out of AWS re:Invent related to the mainframe platform. AWS continues to sharpen its focus on the venerable mainframe platform with a more comprehensive partnership with Micro Focus.
Steven Dickens

IBM Z OMEGAMON Designed to Further Connect Mainframe to the Hybrid Cloud

Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the latest release of the venerable OMEGAMON suite from IBM. As clients look increasingly to move to an AIOps driven mindset, IBM is riding this wave with the IBM Z OMEGAMON suite and connecting the data outputs to industry standard offerings such as Elastic and Grafana.
Steven Dickens

Open Mainframe Goes from Strength to Strength

Futurum Research Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the Open Mainframe Summit event taking place this week and the announcements the Linux Foundation collaborative project focused on the mainframe is making as part of the conference. As the mainframe transforms to fit within the hybrid landscape, open source represents a key component in the platform continuing its place in mission critical computing environments.
Steven Dickens

Mainframe Ecosystem Mobilizes for Common Good with Congress, Micro Focus, and Broadcom Providing Encouraging News

Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on an interesting week in the mainframe space. Congressman Matt Cartwright (D-PA-08) looks to get support for the Grace Hopper Code for Us Act in the House to fund higher ed training for IT jobs and addressing the shortage of professionals with a background in older coding languages needed to maintain and modernize critical government IT systems. Micro Focus plays a significant role in that initiative, and Broadcom looks to transform the mainframe landscape through Open Source with The Linux Foundation, Open Mainframe Project. Very interesting times ahead for the mainframe industry.
Steven Dickens

IBM Systems Has A Tough Quarter, But That Is Not The Whole Story

Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the Q2 2021 results for IBM Systems. The headline results on the surface look troubling for Systems, however given the product life cycles of IBM Z and Power, and tough comparisons against Q2 2020, the business did surprisingly well and shows areas of growth and penetration in the marketplace.
Steven Dickens

BMC Announces New Capabilities Aimed at Security, a Modern Development Experience and Promoting an Open, Collaborative Mainframe

BMC today announced new capabilities aimed at security, facilitating a modern development experience, and promoting an open, collaborative mainframe. Futurum analyst Steven Dickens shares his insights on the relevance and timeliness of these capabilities as well as what’s ahead.
James Kobielus

BMC Strengthens AIOps Through Compuware Acquisition

BMC’s Compuware acquisition is a clear sign that the mainframe era is winding down. Recognizing that their enterprise customers are distributing IT assets across clouds and need tooling to automate management of it all, they have wisely hitched wagons and beefed up their focusing on self-managing closed-loop IT operations management.
Daniel Newman

Google Acquires Cornerstone to Address Mainframe Workloads

Google continues its investments in companies that will drive more workloads to the cloud, but is the purchase of Cornerstone a sound move for Google Cloud?
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