MainframeZone.com is the independent, one-stop location that is exclusively focused on the information needs of IT professionals and managers responsible for acquiring, optimizing, maintaining, and aligning mainframe computing resources throughout an enterprise to achieve business objectives.
As an independent, mainframe-focused website, MainframeZone.com is a portal providing easy access to a wealth of helpful resources that include:
- z/Journal, the only independent magazine that provides technical, in-depth, how-to articles designed to increase the productivity of users of IBM mainframe computer systems.
- Mainframe Executive, the only independent magazine that focuses on the role of the mainframe in an overall IT infrastructure and features case studies of unique implementations as well as topics such as security, virtualization, modernization, and migration.
- MainframeZone.com Blog
- MainframeZone.com Buyer's Guide
- MainframeZone.com Jobs
- MainframeZone.com Archive of hundreds of mainframe-centric articles
- MainframeZone.com News
- . . . and much more
Our involvement with IBM mainframes goes back more than 22 years to 1986 when we launched 4300 Quarterly. 4300 Quarterly quickly became 4300 Journal as its frequency increased. As IBM mainframe nomenclature changed, the magazine's name changed as well to Mainframe Journal and then to Enterprise Systems Journal. Other mainframe-oriented magazines we published were, DB2 Journal, IBM Internet Journal, and Relational Database Journal (which later became DB2 Journal).
While MainframeZone.com is focused on the mainframe, we fully recognize that the days of "totally Blue" IT shops are long gone. In most all IT organizations where mainframes are installed there are no doubt distributed systems as well as other computing devices interfaced and networked to the mainframe within the IT infrastructure. We refer to these as mainframe-centric enterprises. However, the mainframe continues to be the gold standard for performance, availability, security, and reliability as evidenced by the fact that the majority of the world's largest banks, retailers, distributors, and manufacturers continue to place their most mission-critical applications and data on the mainframe.
While we are up-front about our mainframe bias, we do recognize that the mainframe isn't always the optimum solution in all situations. So we will occasionally feature articles, white papers, and ads about mainframe alternatives as a service to our readers and visitors. Are there ever reasons not to use a mainframe or to move off of mainframe architecture? Sure. For instance, when a mainframe is not running at full capacity, when there's a need for applications that don't run on a mainframe, or acquisition by a company with a distributed computing bias - to name a few.
I welcome your feedback and suggestions for ways we can improve MainframeZone.com and make it a more valuable mainframe resource.
Bob ThomasPublisher
bob@mainframezone.com
