Cloud Data Management

Author, investor, speaker, and advisor Tom Taulli joins The Modern Mainframe to discuss his new book, "Modern Mainframe Development: COBOL, Databases and Next-Generation Approaches," why mainframe development is a promising career opportunity, the impact and future of the platform, and more.

It's a can't-miss episode for those entering the IT workforce, considering a career change, or looking to build or strengthen a development team.

Links:
Tom Taulli on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomtaulli/
On Twitter: https://twitter.com/ttaulli

Tom's PluralSight.com COBOL courses:
https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/cobol-big-picture/table-of-contents
https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/murachs-mainframe-cobol

The 2023 BMC Mainframe Survey: https://www.bmc.com/forms/mainframe-survey-results.html

Podcast: The Mainframe on Campus with Dr. Cameron Seay - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/the-mainframe-on-campus-with-dr-cameron-seay

Blog: Awareness, Relatability Key to Drawing Students to the Mainframe - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/awareness-relatability-key-to-drawing-students-to-the-mainframe/

The Modern Mainframe

A Discussion of Modern Mainframe Development with Tom Taulli

Intellyx analyst and managing partner Jason Bloomberg, BMC Director of Product Management Alan Warhurst and BMC Senior Product Manager Tomer Zelberzvig discuss the advantages of mainframe data storage, management, and protection in the hybrid cloud. 

The group discusses some of the challenges presented by the use of traditional on-premises infrastructure and how hybrid cloud alleviates them, how managing mainframe data on the hybrid cloud makes it accessible to analytics engines and AI/ML, and more.

Links:

BMC AMI Cloud Solutions – https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-cloud.html

Blog: Entering a Future of Possibility with Hybrid Cloud Mainframe Data Management – https://www.bmc.com/blogs/hybrid-cloud-mainframe-data-management-future-of-possibility

Video: Unlock the Power of Hybrid Cloud Storage for Mainframe Data Management - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oedNp_PgJ0

Unlocking the Power of Hybrid Cloud Storage for Mainframe Data

Beyond the numerous benefits of managing mainframe data in the hybrid cloud is a strategic imperative. Intellyx analyst and managing partner Jason Bloomberg, and BMC Senior Product Manager Tomer Zelberzvig and Director of Software Consulting Tim Ceradsky discuss not only why a shift to hybrid cloud data management is a good idea, but also why now.

Links:

Blog: Why Migrate Mainframe Data to the Hybrid Cloud—and Why Now? - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/why-migrate-mainframe-data-hybrid-cloud-now/

Podcast: Unlocking the Power of Hybrid Cloud Storage for Mainframe Data - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/unlocking-power-hybrid-cloud-storage-mainframe-data

Intellyx White Paper: The Hybrid Cloud Urgency Checklist for Mainframe Data Protection - Why Hybrid Cloud Now? - https://documents.bmc.com/products/documents/29/71/542971/542971.pdf

Intellyx Brain Blog: How can we trust hybrid cloud for managing and storing mainframe data? - https://intellyx.com/2023/06/27/how-can-we-trust-hybrid-cloud-for-managing-and-storing-mainframe-data-2/

Hybrid Cloud Data Management

Why Hybrid Cloud for Mainframe Data Protection — And Why Now?

BMC AMI Cloud Sales Specialist Colleen Gordon and Worldwide Director of Cybersecurity Sales Ken Chism talk about the threat of ransomware on the mainframe, how organizations can work to prevent attacks, how to recover in the event of an attack, and the importance of immutable backups to those recovery efforts.

Links:
White Paper: Mainframe Under Attack: Essential Measures for Ransomware Resilience - https://www.bmc.com/documents/white-papers/mainframe-under-attack-essential-measures-for-ransomware-resilience.html

BMC AMI Security - https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-mainframe-security.html

BMC AMI Cloud - https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-cloud.html

Blog: What DORA Means for Mainframe Teams in and Around EMEA, by Ken Chism - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/what-dora-means-for-mainframe-teams-emea/

Podcast: Mainframe Operational Resilience: DORA and Beyond - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/mainframe-operational-resilience-dora-beyond

Podcast: Why Hybrid Cloud for Mainframe Data Protection — And Why Now? - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/hybrid-cloud-mainframe-data-protection-why-now

Security

Ransomware and Immutable Backups on the Mainframe

BMC AMI Cloud Sales Specialist Colleen Gordon and Senior Product Manager Tomer Zelberzvig discuss the history of secondary storage of mainframe data, the current state of tape and VTL, how object storage is the future of mainframe data storage, and how the new Cloud Data Sets feature in BMC AMI Cloud Data is changing the way data storage is handled.

Links:

Blog: Goodbye, Tape: The Future of Mainframe Data Storage - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/future-of-mainframe-data-storage/

BMC AMI Cloud - https://www.bmc.com/it-solutions/bmc-ami-cloud.html

Blog: BMC’s Path to Hybrid Cloud Innovation - https://www.bmc.com/blogs/bmc-path-hybrid-cloud-innovation/

Podcast: Ransomware and Immutable Backups on the Mainframe - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/ransomware-and-immutable-backups-on-the-mainframe

Podcast: Why Hybrid Cloud for Mainframe Data Protection – And Why Now? - https://soundcloud.com/modernmainframe/hybrid-cloud-mainframe-data-protection-why-now

Goodbye Tape, Hello Cloud - The Future of Mainframe Data Storage

Defining DevOps isn't easy, which is why we had Gene Kim join us to talk about it. Gene is one of the leading voices in DevOps, regularly contributing invaluable research and thought leadership through his company, IT Revolution, that is helping organizations transform. He also leads DevOps Enterprise Summit and wrote The Phoenix Project, a novel about IT, DevOps and helping your business succeed.

Links:

IT Revolution: https://itrevolution.com/
The Phoenix Project: https://itrevolution.com/book/the-phoenix-project/
Fireside Chat with Compuware CEO Chris O'Malley: https://youtu.be/r3H1E2lY_ig
Project to Product: How Value Stream Networks Will Transform IT & Business - Mik Kersten: https://youtu.be/E5VP3ioSRU8

What Is DevOps? with Gene Kim

Tune in for lively, insightful discussion of topics important to the mainframe community, from DevOps to security and staffing. 2020 & 2024 winner of the DevOps Dozen Award for Best DevOps-Related Podcast Series.

Why Hybrid Cloud for Mainframe Data Protection — And Why Now?

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