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Two decades of promised modernization have delivered surprisingly little. The problem was never a shortage of will. It is that most banks are still asking whether to replace the mainframe, rather than which parts of it actually need to change. Financial institutions worldwide continue to spend heavily maintaining core banking systems built on COBOL and [...] The post The Mainframe Question Banks Keep Getting Wrong! appeared first on Techstrong IT.

The Splunk arm of Cisco today moved to reduce the total cost of applying analytics to IT operations while at the same time adding additional artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to manage and analyze telemetry data at scale. Announced at the .conf26 event, Splunk AI Assistant, now generally available, translates natural language queries into Search Processing [...] The post Splunk Moves to Reduce IT Costs in the Agentic AI Era appeared first on Techstrong IT.

Techstrong.it is now providing a weekly IT jobs report through which opportunities for IT professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for IT professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of [...] The post Ten Great IT Job Opportunities appeared first on Techstrong IT.

A survey of enterprise IT leaders finds widespread SLA breaches, misrouted incidents and rising costs in outsourced ITOps, accelerating interest in AI agents as an alternative to traditional Level 1 support. The post Survey Surfaces Dissatisfaction With IT Services Provided by GSIs appeared first on Techstrong IT.

Cornelis Networks is taking its networking business deeper into AI infrastructure with a new fabric architecture aimed at giving system builders an alternative to proprietary interconnects such as Nvidia’s NVLink. The company introduced Active Compute Fabric along with $205 million in new funding to support its expansion and next-generation networking products. Cornelis argues that as [...] The post Cornelis Moves Into Scale-Up AI Networking With Active Compute Fabric, $205M Funding appeared first on Techstrong IT.