Five decades of service with one organization is a milestone. Looking back over my 50 years as a SHARE volunteer, I hope that my history provides other members with a snapshot of where the organization has been and where it is going — a first-hand look at history.
On Friday, March 6, 2015 at SHARE in Seattle, a variety of speakers covered a myriad of topics too small to have a session of their own and too important not to pass along. These items can be brought back home and be put straight to use.
Mainframes process 2.5 billion gigabytes of data globally daily—a capacity its developers could have scarcely comprehended in the platform’s early days 50 years ago.
Anyone working in IT is a steward for data—their company’s proprietary information, their personal records and their customers’ data, which, if they lose it, becomes a mammoth strike on their credibility.