Zed’s dead, baby.” These may be the immortal words of a motorbike wielding Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction, but also some of the first words uttered to me when I made the decision to move into the System z software team. The perception of mainframe is simple: it’s a dinosaur. In a world where companies like Apple render their previous generations of hardware ‘vintage’ or ‘obsolete’ after 5 years, and release software upgrades annually and free of charge, how can the mainframe still be relevant? Equally, as the current IT landscape evolves towards mega trends such as Cloud, Mobile and Big Data, … Continue reading “Zed’s Dead Baby”- The relevance of the mainframe to modern computing and IT trends.