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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

I’m a banking technologist,” says the CIO for retail, business, and digital banking at M&T Bank. He’s doing just that on the bank’s IBM Z system mainframes, for which the bank has written some 10 million lines of code over the years. The bank’s use of its mainframes is two-pronged. M&T Bank.

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Technology Short Take #81

Scott Lowe

Here’s a handy list of deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements. Servers/Hardware. Konstantin Ryabitsev has a series going on securing a SysAdmin Linux workstation. Part 1 covers how to choose a Linux distribution, and part 2 discusses some security tips for installing Linux on your SysAdmin workstation.

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7 cloud market trends and how they will impact IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Early adopters of industry clouds were healthcare, banking, and tech companies, but that has expanded to energy, manufacturing, public sector, and media. Traditional hardware vendors also have as-a-service offerings that can run in data centers or at the edge: Dell Apex and HPE GreenLake.

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Looking Ahead: My 2017 Projects

Scott Lowe

Now that I have a better idea of what’s involved ( this post by Ethan Banks is truly spot on ), I’m going to shoot for 9 episodes in 2017 and give myself some room for really busy periods (like VMworld). Two other things that will keep me busy this year (aside from my day job, of course!)

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Technology Short Take #39

Scott Lowe

Ethan Banks also muses on the need for abstraction. Servers/Hardware. Another interesting tidbit regarding hardware: it seems as if we are now seeing the emergence of another round of “hardware offloads.” This next round of hardware offloads seems targeted at network virtualization and related technologies.

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Scott Lowe

” Ivan Pepelnjak attempts to answer the question, “How much do I need to know about Linux networking?” ” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. Servers/Hardware. Career/Soft Skills.

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IBM Acquires CSL to Advance the Cloud on System z » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

IBM boosts its System z portfolio by acquiring CSL International, Actian leverages previous acquisitions to launch new cloud and big data platforms and EastWest Bank selects HP to build a private cloud for updating its infrastructure. HP builds private cloud for EastWest Bank. By: John Rath July 12th, 2013. Featured Cloud Articles.