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The Moral Dilemma; Invest or ....

Marcel den Hartog — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:11:00 GMT

Everybody in IT knows that most of the IT budget is spent on "keeping the lights on". This is seen as "not good" because, according to some, IT should spend more money on innovation, adding business value etc. Spending 60-80% on keeping the lights on is equivalent to "wasting money". And somehow, nobody ever seems to question statements like this. Well, I...

2012: The Year of the Dragon

Marcel den Hartog — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:57:00 GMT

2012. A year where nobody seems to know what to expect. There is uncertainty about almost everything. Since we KNOW it will be an uncertain year, at least we can prepare ourselves for it, which, in itself, is a comforting thought. According to the Chinese Zodiac, this is also the Year of the Dragon, which officially begins on January 23, 2012 and ends on February 9, 2013. ...

Evolution or Revolution; that’s the question… But what is the answer?

Marcel den Hartog — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:19:00 GMT

The World of IT evolves. And like things in the real world, we have big revolutions (often viewed as hype) and in between those, we have evolutions. The evolutions are necessary to keep things going and to clean up some of the mess that is left by the revolutions. With this in the back of our minds, what does this make CA Technologies recent “Next Generation Mainframe Management” announcement?...

The Mainframe Remains Resurgent

Scott Fagen — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:43:00 GMT

So, I’m a couple of days into CA World ’11 and my feet hurt from being upright for double-digit hours every day, but it is heartening to see that our solid core of mainframe customers are here in force. In fact, there are more mainframers here than the two previous CA Worlds! The Exhibition Center is buzzing, especially around our new products, but there is also excitement around the...

Silo's, silo's; Will Cloud finally solve this?

Marcel den Hartog — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:11:00 GMT

Every single day during the last 20 years in my career I have been confronted with the (sometimes) bitter arguments between people who manage mainframes and those who control the distributed environment. Often, the discussions were emotional, sometimes even bitter and almost always they had no positive effect on the reputation of the IT department. Call me an optimist, but I sincerely hoped that...