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, trends, …Read More
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% …Read More
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 …Read More
How To Ditch The Mainframe: Tips For Decommissioning
Image Credits: IBM
The original technology debt-maker, the mainframe, is still active.
‘Big Iron’ still processes a lot of the world’s financial efforts – insuranceRead More
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..Read More
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 identifiableRead More
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 archived …Read More
From Mainframe to Modern: Leaving VSAM Behind
The most dangerous phrase in [our] language is, “We’ve always done it this way”.Grace Hopper
Maintaining Content on the Mainframe with VSAM
In the past, storing data in the..Read More
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, …Read More
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 of …Read More