By Haluk Ulubay, Senior Director of Marketing, DataCore Software Businesses today are overwhelmingly embracing digital transformation as a key strategic priority. However, to be successful in achieving this transformation, real-time data is critical. This is because in today’s 24x7 business environment, an organization’s ability to remain competitive lies in its ... Read More »
The new National Capital Area CMG held their first event on December 6th and had a great turnout. They were able to live stream most of their event out and the video is now available. Check out these presentations in the video below: (0:02:17) Capacity Planning for Pervasive Encryption with zBNA ... Read More »
This is so exciting! I don’t know if any of you will remember Bernie Mazur – he was the mainframe systems lead capacity planner at the Bank of Montreal, where I work, from the early 1980s until he retired in 2005. I started working with him in 1999, and he ... Read More »
Technology Careers in the Esports Industry By Marcus Clarke Are you a technology professional who might be considering a new career move? You would do well to consider a career in the Esports industry. Never heard of Esports before, or have a mental image of a few lonely teenage boys ... Read More »
The CMG Journal Fall will be released soon. In it is a paper by Ashutosh Shinde which applies a simple concept, Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to a very complex problem. Imagine a smaller – or younger - organization with performance problems, you know the business, the stack, you know when ... Read More »
Alibaba Cluster Data Available for Research in Data Center Efficiency By Zhen Zhang, PhD and Kingsum Chow Introduction Several studies have raised the importance of data center efficiency. However, the lack of access to data center performance data has inhibited the progress of improving data center efficiency. To address that problem, ... Read More »
5 Things Staff MUST Know about Cybersecurity By Ben Taylor Regardless of the efforts companies make to shore up and secure their IT systems, there’s always a serious threat that remains. That threat is that any one of the system users could make a mistake that results in a cyber-attack ... Read More »
Orchestration has become a hot topic for Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) Datacenter folks. While there were promises of Orchestration in the private cloud environment, in the past year these promises are becoming reality. What’s interesting in this space is that the public cloud players don’t have an attractive Orchestration layer ... Read More »
Performance management is one of the key focus of any platform. A system may have several resources (CPU, I/O, storage, network etc.) that collectively work together to process a mission critical workloads. To assess overall health of the system, mainframe system reports can be reviewed on certain key performance metrics ... Read More »
Of late, while trying to adapt to digital wallets for bill payments and online shopping, I came across promotional offers across newspapers, media and TV channels for one of the popular digital wallets in India. Thinking to get myself benefitted from those promotions, tried to open up their Mobile App ... Read More »
