Out from the Shadows: Raising the Mainframer Profile

By Mark Underwood

  • Be part of technical storytelling, especially video. Myth-busting does not necessarily make for good storytelling, so think about how your audience will receive it. As Jason Syncsort_mainframes_at_50Bloomberg explains in a piece for Intellyx, Google produced a slick video extolling its new Oregon data center, sprawling with acres of commodity servers. Use existing content (e.g. the documentary Big Iron: The Mainframe Story) to educate and entertain as well. Make a video (or describe an imaginary one) to show how beautiful small can be in the footprint of a mainframe. Or help your marketing department get the story out for their more technically minded audience.  Knowledge is power and people do want to get smarter about interesting things.

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