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DevOps Excellence Awards 2024
We are very proud to announce that PopUp Mainframe has been awarded Highly Commended in the category 'DevOps Tool/Product of the Year' at the DevOps Excellence Awards 2024. We are thrilled to be recognised alongside some well-established players in the DevOps...
PopUp Mainframe announces release of Warp Speed PopUp
Breaking news: PopUp Mainframe, the virtual, on-demand mainframe, today announced the general availability of their latest release: 'Warp Speed PopUp'. After much innovation, development and rigorous testing, we are proud to unveil the release of our new and...
Old School, New School … Mainframe is for Everyone!
At PopUp, we believe mainframe can and should be for everyone. Let's start this post with a definition. 'Old School' Mainframe Engineers: People who may have been working on the mainframe for many years who are comfortable with green screen and traditional ways...
Masking mainframe ‘legacy’ data sources – Tricky or trivial?
Data protection and compliance is such an important topic, and there's no exception on mainframe. But it can be complex to implement for mainframe, particularly in relation to what we sometimes term as "legacy" mainframe data sources. This blog post discusses why it...
Fast-track your mainframe DevOps initiatives
DevOps on the mainframe is particularly hard In IT, mainframe is often the last piece to achieve automation. Many organisations have established automation and DevOps ways of working for the distributed teams, but haven’t managed to apply this to the mainframe...
‘API’fy your z/OS Applications and Data with PopUp
Are you wondering how to expose your z/OS applications and data to the cloud, mobile, or the web? Then z/OS Connect and Popup Mainframe might be the answer you are looking for. PopUp Mainframe ships with IBM z/OS Connect out of the box, which enables you to create...
DevOps Dozen 2023 – Finalists!
We are very proud to announce that PopUp Mainframe has been listed as a finalist in 2 categories at the DevOps Dozen Awards 2023! This recognition is particularly special to us as we are a very small, very young company, competing against some established...
GSE UK Conference 2023 – Photos!
The UK PopUp team (or "PopStars" as we call ourselves) attended the GSE conference at Whittlebury Park from 30th Oct - 2nd Nov 2023. It was a very well-attended event, brimming with mainframe enthusiasts, and copious deep discussions on all aspects of mainframe....
PopUp is now listed on Red Hat Marketplace
We are thrilled to announce that in addition to our longstanding presence on the Azure Marketplace, PopUp Mainframe is now also available via the Red Hat Marketplace. PopUp can be up and running on any x86 hosted environment in minutes… both on premises and in the...
Git for the mainframe? How Git boosts collaboration, improves productivity and enables CICD
Git is everywhere in the world of distributed applications, but not yet for mainframe. Should you consider Git for your mainframe? Why? Git is excellent at facilitating and accelerating collaboration for software teams. People with a distributed...
GSE UK Conference – Nov 2023
We are excited to be attending the GSE UK Conference 2023 from 30th Oct - 2nd Nov in Whittlebury Hall. We will be co-presenting a session with one of our customers, Legal & General, on Tuesday 31st October. GSE Session: Legal & General -...
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 systems from a...
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...
PopUp Mainframe is Launched!
21st March 2022 The DevOps, Integration and digital transformation specialist, Sandhata Technologies, has launched its new product company, PopUp Mainframe. PopUp Mainframe is a cutting-edge solution which finally removes the bottleneck of mainframe test environments...
Mainframe Data Masking and Virtualisation
PopUp Mainframe & Delphix - A powerful combination Provision secure mainframe environments on demand on premise and in the cloud. Delphix Continuous Data enables virtualisation and automation of all types of mainframe data (including DB2, VSAM...
Need a dedicated mainframe environment? Look no further than PopUp Mainframe
For distributed applications, it is now routine and often expected that a dedicated environment can be spun up anytime one is required. This is in line with the agile and DevOps ways of working which are becoming ubiquitous in the distributed world. However, this has...
Mainframe testing: What’s the difference between PopUp Mainframe and physical mainframe?
The challenge of testing in the mainframe world Modern development teams require agile, flexible environments to be able to deliver quick change reliably and enable business competitiveness. But the reality is that fixed, shared mainframe environments...
Introducing PopUp Mainframe
We are very excited to introduce PopUp Mainframe – a brand new offering which finally removes the bottleneck of mainframe test environments by making mainframe self-service a reality. Mainframe environments are expensive to buy and time-consuming to build and...