
From Tinkering to Tech: My Unexpected Path to a Mainframe Career
LaunchCode’s partnership with Broadcom and the Mainframe Vitality Program and how they discovered how the technology is thriving and evolving.

How to Guard Your Mainframe from High-Impact Security Incidents
Today’s mainframe observability solutions must expand mainframe observability to multi-platform, enterprise-wide tools so that SREs can zero in on and fix critical alerts.

Breaking Down IT Silos to Maximize Private Cloud Value
Cloud is the default operating model for enterprises today, but adoption and value are often constrained by organizational structure. According to the Private Cloud Outlook 2025 report, one in three IT leaders say that siloed IT teams are the top barrier to private cloud adoption. Here’s how these silos can delay progress, and how organizations […]

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.

Zero Trust Deep Dive, Part 1: Does the Mainframe Really Need Zero Trust?
The mainframe, like any other platform, is only as secure as people and processes make it. We should assume that a breach will happen; it’s not a matter of if, but when. Everything should be verified and validated at every stage. Never trust, always verify.

Why AI Speed Without Access Control Is a Recipe for Risk
Here’s what keeps CIOs in regulated industries up at night: You can build AI data collectors in minutes today using open source tools like LlamaIndex and Model Context Protocol (MCP). But if employees are going out and doing this on their own, you run the risk of massive exposure—not just from a security perspective, but […]

What We Learned Testing Frontier AI Security Models Against Our Own Code
The Broadcom Infrastructure Software Group has spent the past several weeks testing the latest generation of frontier AI models against some of our own production code. We want to share what we learned because the implications matter for every organization that depends on software. Our ultimate findings were jolting, but the team’s initial impressions could […]

New Broadcom and Carahsoft Agreement With DISA Delivers Uniform Pricing and Cost Transparency for DoW Agencies
New Deal Consolidates Existing Broadcom Software Contracts to Deliver Best Value, Enhanced Security and a Private Cloud Platform to the Department of War and Military Services PALO ALTO, Calif., and RESTON, Va. – March 24, 2026 – Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO), a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, […]

Three key steps on your sovereign cloud journey
The global race for AI innovation, fueled by decades of unprecedented global connectivity and data flow, has driven the development of cloud computing and technological progress. However, the focus of boardroom conversations is shifting from data availability to data confidentiality and sovereignty. As AI and other data-intensive technologies become crucial to national security and economic […]

Zero Trust Deep Dive, Part 2: So, You’re Ready for Zero Trust — But Is Your Mainframe?
Today’s threat landscape leaves little room for assumptions. Attackers are faster, regulations are stricter, and IT environments are more complex than ever.

Legal-Ready AI: 7 Tips for Engineers Who Don’t Want to Be Caught Flat-Footed
An oversimplified approach I have taken in the past to explain wisdom is to share that “We don’t know what we don’t know until we know it.” This absolutely applies to the fast-moving AI space, where unknowingly introducing legal and compliance risk through an organization’s use of AI is a top concern among IT leaders. […]

VMUG’s Tamecka McKay on Leadership, Transformation, and the Power of Community
Every experienced CIO has disaster stories to tell. Being prepared for the unexpected is in the job description. Tamecka McKay knows that all too well. Hers is a story of bad timing and good leadership. McKay recently took on the CIO role at the Seminole Tribe of Florida. She previously was CIO for the City […]