Posted by Mike on Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 445 views
Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he’s likely to roll his eyes. Cloud is just a new name — and a lot of hype — for what mainframes have done for years, he’ll say.
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 175 views
Tech-wise, Millennium Eve was so quiet, some started to wonder — did IT overspend on Y2K?
The Y2K bug may have been IT’s moment in the sun, but it also cast a long shadow in its wake.
The years and months leading up to the year 2000 were a hard slog for virtually everyone in IT, from project managers to programmers. Then, after IT definitively slayed the Y2K beast, IT executives were greeted not by cheers but with suspicious questions.
Was the Y2K threat overblown?
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