Stories

As Python adoption on the mainframe accelerates, one truth becomes clear: success isn’t just about making Python available, it’s about making it manageable.

When done right, z/OS and distributed systems look like lifelong pen pals, even when they secretly write in completely different languages.

The Siren Call of the Click-simple UI The easier a technology becomes to deploy, the more dangerous it gets. That is the Planning Paradox, and nowhere is it more visible right now than with the new VCF Installer in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9. This interface is, quite frankly, brilliant – a ‘click-simple’ solution that […]

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 […]

In a frequently-cited Wall Street Journal essay1, Marc Andreessen famously declared that “software is eating the world.” Today, this insight seems equally apt for artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence isn’t a narrow add-on to the enterprise; it is fast becoming integral to the products and services offered by enterprises and to internal processes. A truism of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Customers today are reassessing how they operate and scale their cloud environments. Many are seeking greater cost predictability, reduced operational complexity, and more control over workload placement. As private cloud strategies built on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) continue to gain momentum, customers are also evaluating how to align with providers that can deliver consistent operations, […]

Read to discover how a passion for technology and relentless curiosity led Joseph to a rewarding mainframe career through Broadcom’s Vitality Program.

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.