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IBM today unveiled a z15 mainframe that takes advantage of additional processing horsepower to create Trusted Data Objects that allow organizations to employ Privacy Passports technology to encrypt data across a hybrid cloud computing environment. Tru… Continue reading IBM Adds Encryption Everywhere Capabilities to the Mainframe
Reading Time: 5 minutes Consumers’ understanding of data privacy is evolving. Nearly two-thirds of poll respondents strongly agree that companies should be doing more to protect them against cybersecurity threats.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Given trends like data center consolidation, hybrid cloud models and new designs that allow mainframes to operate in traditional environments, what better time to reevaluate your mainframe security?
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If you are the operator of a vintage computer, probably the only one of its type remaining in service, probably the worst thing you can hear is a loud pop followed by your machine abruptly powering down. That’s what happened to the Elliott 803B in the UK’s National Museum Of …read more
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Now that we have tools that provide multifactor authentication (MFA) without friction, it’s time to upgrade your mainframe security to participate more fully in the benefits of digital transformation.
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The computers we are used to working with are more likely to be at the smaller end of the computational spectrum. Sometimes they are very small indeed, such as tiny microcontrollers with only a few GPIOs. Others are single board machines such as a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino, and …read more
Retro computer fans come in all shapes and sizes. Some like the big name machines from the dawn of the home computer era, others like collecting quirky pieces like early laptops and handheld devices. Even more obscure are those who choose to collect old mainframe hardware. This can be challenging, …read more
When did computers arrive in schools? That should be an easy question to answer, probably in the years around 1980. Maybe your school had the Commodore Pet, the Apple II, or if you are British, the Acorn BBC Micro in that period, all 8-bit microcomputers running a BASIC interpreter. That’s …read more
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In my monthly wrap-up, I will share what happened in the world of Azure IaaS over the last month. We’re closing in on the end of “Titanium” – the current October – March sprint in Microsoft’s DevOps calendar. And Microsoft Build is not too far away. Things have been relatively quiet since early November, […]
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The Computer History Museum in Mountain View has two operational IBM 1401 mainframes, which use IBM 1403 high-speed printers. They aren’t some decades-old notion of “high speed” that barely looks sluggish today, either. These monsters slam out ten lines per second thanks to a rotating chain of type slugs and an array of electromagnetic hammers. Every 11.1 microseconds, a character in the chain would be lined up with a hammer, and if the control circuitry identified it as a character that needed to be printed, the hammer behind the paper would drive the paper into the print ribbon and the …read more
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