Blog post for Bloor Research by David Norfolk
The new capabilities of the IBM z17 mainframe include:
- AI, observability, and automation tools that drive operational excellence
- Holistic cybersecurity protection and risk management features
- Efficient storage and management of enterprise data at scale
- Simplified hybrid cloud integration through open standards and frameworks.
To take advantage of these you will want to develop modernized DevX and DevOps processes and to explore value add vendor and Open Source Software partnerships. Jason Bloomberg (Managing Partner at Intellyx) discusses this here. I am fairly confident that AI will be a key part of modernizing the mainframe – and, in particular, of finding out what your heritage codebase actually does. This means that the AI capabilities of z17 could be very useful.
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