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Third Annual State of Corporate Technology – THE RESEARCH

For the third consecutive year, Platform 3 Solutions surveyed thousands of IT professionals to find out how companies are adapting to a rapidly evolving technology landscape.  This research identifies directions,…

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IT Modernization: the new IT stack has arrived.

IT modernization is more than a buzz word. Quoted from a recent Joe Williams blog, “In a non-Wall Street tone, Snowflake’s most recent quarter was a blowout: sales up 83%…

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Why IBM DB2 is Not the Database of the Future.

Edgar Codd had worked at IBM in the 1970s when he published his papers around “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks”.   It is still considered the…

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Why Postgres is more popular than SQL Server

Open-source is driving innovation, easier legal terms, better pricing and your choice of cloud with enterprise readiness Re-platforming for the cloud drives a new database decision Platform choice, innovation and…

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The Cost Of Not Decommissioning IT Assets Properly

$60 Million+ for Morgan Stanley In 2016 and 2019, Morgan Stanley’s legacy infrastructure was decommissioned without removing sensitive data that contained personally identifiable information (PII). As a result, old hardware…

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Data Archival and Custom Integration

The Need for Custom Built Archive Applications For organizations that have realized the benefits of retiring old applications and archiving their data, a new challenge has arisen: maintaining access to…

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From Mainframe to Modern: Leaving VSAM Behind

Maintaining Content on the Mainframe with VSAM In the past, storing data in the Mainframe and accessing it using VSAM was common practice. Today, there are modern solutions to maintain…

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Parquet as the Data Archival and Preservation Gold Standard

The need for data archival continues to grow, but how do we safely preserve that data in the process? I.T. is continually asked to reduce cost, do more with less,…

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Storage Tiering and its Benefits for Applications

Introduction to Storage Tiering Storage tiering has become a preferred solution to address business concerns associated with managing the exponential growth of data, cost, and application performance.  The basic concept…

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Time for Application Decommissioning: Oracle Lists 2022 End-of-Life Apps

Oracle has the largest amount of tech going end-of-life in 2022… now what? Oracle Applications (including PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, and the dozens of other technologies acquired over the years)…

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