The Future of Big Iron: An Interview with IBM's Christian Jacobi

Technology

Any article about IBM’s big mainframe hardware waxes lyrical about the ‘good-old days’ of multi-generational backwards compatible processing that props up almost every key industry world-wide due to features such as 9x9 (99.999999%) uptime, security, and hardware focused on database and transaction processing. Rather than re-write a walk down memory lane for some, let’s focus on the fact that big iron is still here. Not only that, it’s more important and accessible than ever.

morethanmoore.substack.com     Oct 15, 2024