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DECIPHERING MAINFRAME LICENSING

Join David Stokes, Sr. Director Engineering, Data Management for an informative briefing on Mainframe licensing models and how you can take practical steps to optimize consumption and cost within your organization.

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Demystifying the Cost
and Benefits of Infrastructure for Business Modernization

On-Demand Session: January, 2022

The modernization process includes making complex investment tradeoff decisions in product and service innovation. These tradeoffs lead to improved and secured infrastructure to power business effectively and meet customer needs. Join Kaihan Krippendorff and a panel of experts through their modernization journey View On-Demand

Effectively Outsourcing Mainframe Operations

Live Session Date: October 25, 2021

The mainframe is used to run your organization's mission-critical workloads. In this module we explore the key drivers behind a decision to outsource, detail the cultural impact that this transition can have, and leave you with some crucial considerations depending on the specific outsourcing model that best fits your situation. View On-Demand

Operational Excellence

Live Session Date: May 5, 2021

One of the biggest challenges is supporting innovation while also keeping the business running at peak performance. View this 45-minute session to learn the secrets to running your mainframe, so that your IT staff is prepared with the experience, tools, training and discipline to protect your business IT. View On-Demand

Mainframe Security: Superior protection for your most crucial business assets

Live Session Date: March 24, 2021

When we think about the mainframe we think about security because it is hard to argue with the fact that the mainframe is the most securable IT platform. But a secure mainframe doesn’t happen automatically. Mainframe security needs to be understood, configured and maintained as part of your total enterprise security strategy. And it is important that we take advantage of the large portfolio of modern security capabilities if we are to continue to deliver the level of protection that we have been used to, and that today demands, on the mainframe. This session will provide an overview of the key mainframe security capabilities, how these capabilities compare to security on distributed platforms, how the mainframe can deliver a superior level of protection for your businesses, and how it integrates into your enterprise security. View On-Demand

Accelerating Application Innovation

Live Session Date: January 12, 2021

The Mainframe contains your business' most critical data and applications executing your mission-critical workloads. DevOps and Agile have successfully transformed distributed software development and, in this session, you will learn how they are transforming the Mainframe environment too, accelerating software delivery to meet new business needs while increasing productivity through automation. Learn how the Mainframe is driving the next-generation of business. View On-Demand

Mainframe Hybrid Cloud

Live Session Date: December 8, 2020

This session introduces you to a typical Mainframe cloud environment and helps map concepts and terminology to clouds built with other architectures. You’ll explore hybrid cloud as well as Hybrid IT and Multi-Cloud. Lastly, you’ll examine workload characteristics and a variety of common use patterns such as Asynchronous and RESTful Services. View On-Demand

Business Impact of Today's Mainframe

Live Session Date: August 20, 2020

This new program will grow your understanding of the Mainframe and help you identify the vital workloads it is uniquely matched to handle so you can keep pace with evolving customer expectations and key boardroom topics like: Overcoming barriers to modernization and innovation; Best approaches to address cybersecurity and customer trust; Exploring how to expose new value through integration. View On-Demand