GSE UK Blog: a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society, Aileen Wynne is part of the GSE UK leadership team. “If you want to be challenged and to keep learning as long as you’re working, then mainframes are the best career in the world.”

GSE UK Blog: What a great start to 2021 for the GSE UK Enterprise Security Working Group (ESWG). Our February meeting featured over 8 hours of content, covering a variety of topics to cater for Mainframe and Security people.

A mainframe consultant with more than 25 years’ experience and a member of the GSE UK leadership team for the last few years, Anji Stephens is the new UK technical co-ordinator for GSE UK.

With the last year bringing home the need for flexibility, we are working towards an online event. We are still shaping the final format of the conference, but know it will take place in the first two weeks of November 2021, from 2-4 and 9-11 November.

I want to take this opportunity as new GSE UK Region Manager to send best wishes from the entire GSE UK team, and our hopes for a year that’s hopefully so much better than 2020. More problems lie ahead, but…

Blog: Andy Coulson explains that when it comes to mainframe data protection, it’s always wise to consider the various scenarios of failure and to plan for safety. “It makes sense to continue considering the possibilities: over time, the risk assessment can change, with previously unusual causes of failure becoming more likely … entirely new risks to consider. When you’re considering the health and wellbeing of your mainframe infrastructure, resilience, recovery and cybersecurity are more important than ever.”

Blog: the virtually unstoppable Rob Stroud, a 25-year veteran of GSE UK and its conference, explains why it makes sense to be part of ‘the essential IT knowledge network’. “For me, GSE is about developing careers - and helping you look after your customers.”

Blog: first observed in Belgium in 2009, DevOps will soon hit its teenage years. Will the transition to maturity be smooth or shaky? Complementing Agile, DevOps aims to deliver software “better, faster, safer and cheaper” than before but is it achieving that? What’s the current state of play – and what does the future hold?

Compuware blog: Automated testing provides extraordinary benefits including a marked increase in the quality, velocity, and efficiency of your software delivery.

Blog: Stuart Ashby describes how every now and then, the pace of change suddenly accelerates, and 2020 has been one of those times. ‘The pandemic has been a tipping point in so many ways. The genie is out of the bottle when it comes to home working. In a pandemic and post-coronavirus world, every organization will have to become an IT company in that regard ...’

Blog: Andy Coulson says that as the threat vectors and technology evolve, security responses are driving deeper and deeper towards the hardware heart of systems. We need to take a wider view ...

Blog: Jamie Pease discusses the mindset and wiring of a true Mainframe Security Professional. How do they think and approach things?