Strategy

Broadcom Acquires HostBridge Technology

HostBridge Technology has been acquired by Broadcom.  Effective August 1, 2022, HostBridge is part of Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division. Adding HostBridge to Broadcom will create additional value for our collective enterprise customers. HostBridge’s integration and analytics products enable enterprises to define and complete modernization projects quickly and cost-effectively. Since...

How to Build a Modernization Roadmap

Plan, Start, and Complete your Modernization Journey Efficiently and Effectively Every enterprise that relies on mainframe applications is by default in the modernization business. The approaches to and degree of modernization will vary from one enterprise to the next, but all are engaged in it at some level. Like a Rubik’s Cube, modernization is a puzzle with many sides, twists, and turns....

Democratizing Enterprise Mainframe Transactional Data

Helping Citizen Developers Extend the Mainframe using Microsoft Azure™ Note: This article was co-authored by Jim Dugan, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft for Azure Global Specialized Workloads - Legacy. More and more enterprises are turning to citizen developers as a way to accelerate and expand innovation. This is a simple idea: empowering business experts to build new solutions in the...

Optimizing Legacy-to-Cloud Integrations

I recently joined former IBM executive Phil Weintraub to present a webinar on optimizing legacy-to-cloud integrations. Like me, Phil has spent a career helping enterprises architect, manage, and exploit mainframe IT infrastructure. Phil now is the president and lead consultant at Weintraub Systems IT Consulting, and we’re very pleased to partner with his firm. Every enterprise customer we...

Using z/OS Connect with 3270 Terminal CICS Applications

IBM z/OS® Connect Enterprise Edition is IBM’s strategic REST gateway that enables valuable IBM z applications to participate in the API economy. This IBM solution is used to transform z assets into APIs that make it possible to include the mainframe into hybrid IT strategies. Using APIs to make mainframe assets available as REST/JSON services is an ideal way to enable the digital transformation...