David Rivard currently serves as z System Channel and Product Manager for SSH Communications Security. As with many of today's top mainframe experts and professionals, he is a longtime industry veteran and proud of it.
There are a myriad of considerations that must be taken into account when choosing a venue for a SHARE event. However, they break down into five major categories. SHARE Director Marty Zimelis explores each of these considerations.
This story begins with a suggestion from IBM’s John Ehrman at the summer SHARE meeting in 2000. John “owned” the High-Level Assembler program (HLASM) at IBM, and he was always looking for ways to share his knowledge and enjoyment of assembler language with others.
We hear it all the time—the mainframe is the most secure platform on the planet. That may be true, but even Achilles had his heel. And what was Samson without his long flowing hair?
As the world demands ever safer and faster performance from IT organizations, it’s no surprise that security and high availability are the top two factors influencing mainframe growth this year, according enterprise IT professionals who responded to the 2015 BMC Mainframe Survey.
