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• The CIO dilemma; how to fight favoritism…

  How did YOU help him lately? Boys, remember your dreams when you were 16? About your favorite car and how good you would look in it? It was probably a Porsche, a Lotus, a Ford Mustang or it had at least an open rooftop. All other cars looked horrible... Posted Aug 31 2010, 10:34 PM by Marcel den Hartog with | with 1 comment(s) Tags: change mangement, cost, Mainframe, savings

• How expensive is YOUR Mainframe?

  In recent months, I stumbled on something I would like to share with you and would also appreciate your feedback. More than a year ago, CA Technologies conducted a survey in EMEA that clearly showed mainframe ran 55% on average of the mission critical... Posted Aug 20 2010, 03:56 PM by Marcel den Hartog with | with 1 comment(s) Tags: cost, Mainframe, risk management, savings

• Disasters, they DO happen…

  The world watched the BP oil accident in the past weeks. We all have our opinions about it and, like most others; I tried to look at it from a professional point of view. Risk management is something we have to deal with. Either direct or indirect. And... Posted Jul 29 2010, 09:09 AM by Marcel den Hartog with | with no comments Tags: complexity, cost, Mainframe, risk management

• Migrate From Mainframe? To What?

  I recently followed a discussion about this topic on : http://mervadrian.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/migrate-from-mainframe-to-what/ and could not help thinking back. Last year at a GSE conference in The Low Lands, I again met with a systems programmer who... Posted Jul 29 2010, 08:46 AM by Marcel den Hartog with | with no comments Tags: cost, Mainframe, savings

• The invisible Mainframe?

  Is Mainframe overlooked in your organization because it's NOT a problem? Are you overlooked? World renowned speaker Randall Munson shows you how to represent in, "It's Not a Dinosaur: Promoting the Mainframe Within Your Organization."... Posted May 25 2010, 11:18 AM by Marcel den Hartog with | with no comments Tags: complexity, cost, Mainframe, May Mainframe Madness, savings