Don’t Believe the Myth-information about the Mainframe: Part 3
By Janet L. Sun,Immediate Past President, SHARE Inc.In this series, Janet Sun explores and dispels numerous myths around the mainframe. Continued from Part 1 and Part 2.What Do You Lose by Moving Off the Mainframe?Efficiency Typically, distributed servers support a single application workload....

Don’t Believe the Myth-information about the Mainframe: Part 2
By Janet L. Sun,Immediate Past President, SHARE Inc.In this series, Janet Sun explores and dispels numerous myths around the mainframe. Continued from Part 1.Mainframes are Expensive?Think that mainframes are expensive?  ...

Don’t Believe the Myth-information about the Mainframe: Part 1
When I heard about the HuffPost article highlighting a video debunking the myths that Hollywood has been repeating about the mainframe, I was cautiously optimistic.  ...

The Mainframe: Bridging One Generation to Another
Learning is an essential part of effective teaching; any good teacher will tell you that. If you’ve convinced yourself you know everything you need to know, you’ll miss a lot of important information. 

This is true of mainframe professionals – whether they are experienced hands at COBOL and JCL or ...

The Case for Big Data Analytics – And the Infrastructure to Support It
If you were at SHARE’s annual user conference in San Francisco in February, the ‘big data, big needs’ conference track comes as no surprise. In fact, the topic probably comes as little surprise even if you weren’t able to attend the event.

Because the discussion around big data analytics, and its s...