Approach to mainframe penetration testing on z/OS
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Model9 gets $9M Series A to move data between mainframes and cloud
Model9, an Israeli startup launched by mainframe vets, has come up with a way to transfer data between mainframe computers and the cloud, and today the company announced a $9 million Series A. Intel Capital led the round with help from existing investors including StageOne, North First Ventures and Glenrock Israel. The company reports it […] Continue reading Model9 gets $9M Series A to move data between mainframes and cloud
IBM snaps out of its revenue doldrums, breaking a five-quarter losing streak in Q4
International Business Machines is living a case study of a large, established company vying to transform. Over the last decade, the technology elder has struggled to move into areas like cloud and AI. IBM has leaned on a combination of its own R&D abilities and deep pockets to push into modern markets, but has struggled […] Continue reading IBM snaps out of its revenue doldrums, breaking a five-quarter losing streak in Q4
The mainframe business is alive and well, as IBM announces new Z15
It’s easy to think about mainframes as some technology dinosaur, but the fact is these machines remain a key component of many large organization’s computing strategies. Today, IBM announced the latest in their line of mainframe computers, the Z15. For starters, as you would probably expect, these are big and powerful machines capable of handling […] Continue reading The mainframe business is alive and well, as IBM announces new Z15
IBM dangles carrot of full encryption to lure buyers to new z14 mainframe
IBM is doing its damnedest to keep the mainframe relevant in a modern context, and believe it or not, there are plenty of monster corporations throughout the world who still use those relics from the earliest days of computing. Today, the company… Continue reading IBM dangles carrot of full encryption to lure buyers to new z14 mainframe
IBM wants to bring machine learning to the mainframe
IBM wants to bring machine learning to its traditional mainframe customers, and eventually to any technology with large data stores hidden behind a company firewall in what IBM calls a “private cloud.”
Yes mainframes, those ginormous computing machines from an earlier age, are still running inside some of the world’s biggest companies including banks, insurance companies… Read More Continue reading IBM wants to bring machine learning to the mainframe
LzLabs launches product to move mainframe COBOL code to Linux cloud
Somewhere in a world full of advanced technology that we write about regularly here on TechCrunch, there exists an ancient realm where mainframe computers are still running programs written in COBOL.
This is a programming language, mind you, that was developed in the late 1950s, and used widely in the ’60s and ’70s and even into the ’80s, but it’s never really gone away. Read More Continue reading LzLabs launches product to move mainframe COBOL code to Linux cloud