The mainframe industry is at a pivotal moment in its history – the need for increased compliance requirements, the desire for tighter networks with customers, the growing cloud environment, cost pressures, the need for modern user experience, etc., all contribute to the growing need for mainframe modernization. According to a recent report from Forrester, 67% of enterprise infrastructure […]
Case Study: Bringing Credibility to Freddie Mac’s Data Stewardship Model
Jenny Schultz has been with Freddie Mac since 1998. “We have tried to do the ‘data thing’ more than a few times, driven by IT, but it never stuck because the business didn’t see the value in leveraging their data and managing and governing it,” she said during her DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Data World Conference presentation […]
The Ongoing Debate Between Centralized and Distributed Data
Click to learn more about author Kevin W. McCarthy. Though Bon Jovi is no longer the band they were when I was a teenager, they definitely hit the nail on the head with the lyric, “the more things change, the more they stay the same” from their 2010 Greatest Hits album. This paradigm rings true […]
Bridging the Gap Between Mainframe and Modern Data Streams: A Critical Business Need
Click to learn more about author Ibrahim Surani. Information overload is real. Every business today is swimming in a sea of enterprise applications, platforms, and data streams, and the water level rises every time a business expands its portfolio, invests in a new technology, or builds a strategic partnership. Integrating external resources such as survey […]
Case Study: Kela and the Rebirth of the Mainframe System
Due to rising costs, Markku Suominen, ICT Director of Kela IT Services, knew that time was running out for their mainframe system, yet there were concerns about developing a completely new environment. “The programs and databases on our mainframes use over 10 million lines of PL/1 code,” he said. “We do not have the resources […]