Blog
Modern Mainframe Tools – Your Next Superpower?
Some people say that to modernise your mainframe you need to migrate onto a different platform. We don't subscribe to this view. We know that the mainframe is still the most highly performant and secure computer system available. To be competitive,...
Is your mainframe software upgrade process risky, cumbersome and thankless?
Upgrading software applications in the mainframe world can be an onerous and stressful task. It’s perhaps tempting to just take the path with the lowest perceived risk, time and effort involved. That is, moving to the new software version in dev/test, performing the...
PopUp Mainframe 2.0
[London, UK, 23rd March 2023] PopUp Mainframe today announced general availability of PopUp Mainframe 2.0, providing virtual environments running ZD&T 14.0.0 and IBM's latest z/OS operating system, IBM z/OS V2.5. With z/OS 2.5, supporting z16...
GSE UK Conference – February 2023
We are looking forward to presenting a session at the upcoming GSE UK Virtual conference 2023. The PopUp session is "From zero to Mainframe CI/CD in a day" at 12pm UK time, Thursday 9th Feb. You can build CICD pipelines for your mainframe...
PopUp Mainframe Voted Technology Innovator of the Year 2022
We are proud to announce that PopUp Mainframe has been voted Technology Innovator of the Year 2022 by the public. Computing's Technology Product Awards recognise the best of the UK's technology industry: from the most innovative and compelling products and...
Webinar: National Grid Transforms Billing with Delphix & PopUp Mainframe & Azure
Watch this webinar with PopUp's Gary Thornhill and Muthiah Maruthappan. The Billing System transformation programme at National Grid was severely hampered by mainframe test environment unavailability across multiple systems. Dev & Test mainframe...
Technology Product Awards 2022
We are proud to be listed as finalists in the Technology Product Awards 2022 in the category: Technology Innovator of the Year This award recognises high levels of innovation in the last 12 months, rewarding the organisation that has contributed to...
Webinar: Mainframe Enhancement Transformation Insights with Microsoft
PopUp Mainframe's Gary Thornhill joins the Microsoft Cloud team to discuss how to get more from an existing mainframe. They discuss pragmatic options to: improve costs refine a business process creating value from data evolving DevOps Gary talks about how...
PopUp Mainframe is now available on the Microsoft Azure MarketPlace!
PopUp Mainframe, the mainframe-on-demand solution, today announced that PopUp Mainframe is available as a fully packaged cloud offering on Microsoft Azure Marketplace. With the Azure cloud service, Azure customers can now leverage PopUp Mainframe's...
Is outsourcing a barrier to mainframe modernisation?
The evolution of mainframe modernisation is rapidly accelerating In my opinion, the biggest challenge to mainframe modernisation is not technical. It is cultural and organisational with some 'stuck in their ways' siloed mainframe teams reticent, or even obstructing...