Far from being dead or obsolete, the mainframe remains at the base of the modern digital economy. During this session there will be a quick view of Sogei’s modernization steps to innovate its data strategy and plans to let IBM zSystems take part of the Hybrid Cloud Strategy. Our Junior z/Os system programmer will share his experience approaching this platform for the first time.

We will have a look to the journey we started to take to modernize the data strategy starting back in 2016.
Will talk about some of the technologies we adopted and the steps we took.
We will see the reason behind those decisions.
Will talk about integration of new generation.
Will talk about our future direction to have the zSystems integrated in our Cloud environment.

Giordano will talk about his first impression of the platform, how he reacted, how he started taking confidence.
He will give his adivce to approach this technology and will talk about his day-by-day activities, activities that he is starting doing himself without the help of others.
Will talk about his future learning path.

You will learn: How it is possible use mainframe in a more modern way.
How new generation is approaching onboarding this platform and how it is possible to start a career on mainframe