When Novels Meet Postcards: XCOM Teaches Distributed to Speak z/OS
When done right, z/OS and distributed systems look like lifelong pen pals, even when they secretly write in completely different languages.
One Platform. No Compromises.
Why Unified Infrastructure Matters More in the Age of Agentic AI I hear this in almost every executive briefing: “We run thousands of VMs. We also need a modern Kubernetes experience for containers and VMs. Do we really need a second platform for that?” No. You don’t. VMware Cloud Foundation runs VMs and containers on […]
Managing Cost: The New Private Cloud Economics and the CIO Playbook on Cost in the AI Era
Just four months into the year, we’re seeing a massive shift in memory availability and costs, CPU prices, and so on. Here, we dive deeper into the memory and overall infrastructure cost, and how the modern CIO can tackle Infrastructure Economics in the AI Era. Over roughly the last two decades, “cost optimization” in infrastructure […]
Europe’s Cloud Sovereignty Dilemma: Building Resilience Without Closing the Market
If you were to ask cloud providers whether their services are sovereign, my view is that most would say yes. The European Union (EU) has an opportunity to provide a standardized and widely understood definition that could bring more clarity to this market. The question is not whether policymakers will take this opportunity to define […]
Turning Curiosity Into a Career Path: A Mainframe Journey
Read to discover how a passion for technology and relentless curiosity led Joseph to a rewarding mainframe career through Broadcom’s Vitality Program.
The System No One Owns—But Everyone Depends On
Every enterprise has a system that delivers reports and information, working seamlessly in the background, unseen, taken for granted, and assigned no true owner. It isn’t the application that processes transactions. It isn’t the database that stores records. It’s the system that turns data into information people can actually use.
From Red Hat OpenShift to VMware Cloud Foundation 9: A Journey to a Unified Cloud Operating Model
Kubernetes has become the foundation for running modern, containerized applications across enterprises. Platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift have played a key role in accelerating Kubernetes adoption by providing enterprise-grade security, governance, and operational tooling. As organizations scale their container platforms across on-premises and hybrid environments, new challenges emerge. Beyond deploying clusters, teams must operate […]
Wired by Experience: A Combat Veteran’s Path to Mainframe Security
Discover how a Marine Corps combat veteran turned his curiosity with code into a career protecting critical systems in mainframe cybersecurity.
Zero Trust Deep Dive, Part 4: Fine-tuning Your Mainframe Zero Trust Strategy
Implementing the foundational elements of Zero Trust on the mainframe is a huge accomplishment, but your journey doesn’t end there.
The Control Plane: The Next Frontier of Infrastructure Sovereignty
CCS Guest Blog We are already well into the year, and this matters. Predictions help leaders make choices under uncertainty. But a quarter of the way through the year, we also have early evidence of what is sticking, what is stalling, and what is being reprioritised. We have seen geopolitical shocks, ongoing conflicts, regulatory pressure, […]
Making Private Cloud Real: How Xtravirt is Helping Organisations Unlock the Full Value of VMware Cloud Foundation
Many organisations have already made the decision to adopt Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). Yet months after deployment, many are still using it simply as a virtualisation platform rather than the private cloud platform it was designed to be. The question we increasingly hear is no longer whether to adopt VCF, but how to unlock […]