Commenting on a recent Economists article titled “The Return of the Mainframe,” Gregg Willhoit explains how IBM’s improvements for servicing the cloud have positively impacted the Progress DataDirect Shadow product. This podcast runs for 1:48. Click to play // Gregg Willhoit: I think that what IBM has done for cloud computing has impacted Progress DataDirect [...]
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Commenting on a recent Attachmate Survey, Gregg Willhoit explains how lowering the total cost of ownership on the mainframe has helped IT pros justify mainframe modernizations with a service oriented architecture (SOA) approach. This podcast runs for 4:34. Click to play // Gregg Willhoit: There have been many advances in mainframe TCO with regard to [...]
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Commenting on a recent Attachmate Survey, Gregg Willhoit explains why companies are opting to modernize their mainframe applications rather than replace them. This podcast runs for 4:54. Click to play // Gregg Willhoit: First of all, I think the Attachmate survey is really interesting, a lot of salient discussion about SOA and legacy modernization, and [...]
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Commenting on Dana Gardner’s Briefings Direct blog about freeing mainframe applications, Gregg offers his take on why it is wise to leave applications on the mainframe. This podcast runs for 3:15. Click to play // Gregg Willhoit: My take, if you will, on keeping applications on the mainframe, as opposed to moving them off, is [...]
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Gregg Willhoit comments on IBM’s response to the Neon zPrime product. The podcast lasts for 2:57. Click to play // Gregg Willhoit: First of all, I’m firmly in support of IBM and their goals that they originally had with the specialty engine, the openness with vendors, with ISVs, with regard to using the specialty engine. [...]
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In this podcast, Gregg Willhoit explains how Progress DataDirect customers take advantage of moving workloads beyond DB2 to the zIIP specialty engine, and do so risk free and worry free using DataDirect Shadow. Gregg’s podcast runs for 5:22:
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In this guest post Trevor Eddolls, CEO of iTech-Ed Ltd, shares his thoughts on why it is important to modernize mainframe applications.
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In this podcast, Gregg reflects on his presentation ‘Keeping it Legal, Techniques for Maximizing TCO with the zIIP’ at the CMG Technical Conference in Dallas. Gregg shares that the CMG audience supported IBM’s position and approved zIIP offload. Gregg continues that the participating audience hoped for additional transparency regarding who is offloading to the zIIP [...]
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In this podcast Gregg Willhoit helps listeners understand IBM’s intent with its IFL, zAAP and zIIP Specialty Engines.
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In this podcast Gregg Willhoit offers his take on IBM’s recent release of z/OS. This podcast last for 1:07.
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