So when last we left our heroes/heroines (the mainframers), they alone stood between us and total chaos. As anyone who’s watched a horror movie knows, there’s safety in numbers, and so in terms of fighting a potential apocalypse, growing the ranks of the mainframers is priority number one. That task is exactly what IBM and Global Knowledge have started to tackle together.
Read moreWe’ve all seen the movies: the lone, ragged survivor of the zombie apocalypse / nuclear disaster / alien attack is forced to confront a decimated landscape, mankind scattered, life as we know it fundamentally changed. While it’s a chilling vision, it’s something that doesn’t repulse or scare us as much as it could, because it just seems so… implausible. You sit in the theater thinking, “Wow, that’s crazy. What would I do in that situation?” Then you get up, get in your car, and drive home, secure in the knowledge that you’ll never need to answer that question. Or will you?
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