
Managing Python Versions on the Mainframe
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 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.

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, […]

Choosing the Right Platform for Modernization
The computing landscape has broadened significantly in recent years, with many more types and styles of computers powering new business processes, resulting in the need for organizations to redesign and modernize their existing systems.

Why Python on the Mainframe? A Platform Engineer’s Perspective
If you’ve been around the z/OS operating system long enough, you’ve probably asked: Why bother with Python?



