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What is "media literacy?" How does it relate to questions such as, "What is the future of local investigative journalism and its role in a democracy?" If appropriate, please answer that question, too. Thanks!

People are taking advantage of mainframe and z/OS in new ways. For example, a large retailer is using its mainframes to create new services via APIs (e.g., a caching service) for internal applications. Using z/OS and its built-in Workload Management capability, their services have performance (and cache consistency) that is difficult for a distributed system to match. People are also using mainframes to handle huge numbers of concurrent transactions that come from the always-growing number of mobile apps and users.

I'd want to know what your team does and what it needs to accomplish. Are you developers or infrastructure providers? What industry are you in? Without that info, I can offer some general ideas. Built-in ability to scale dynamically to handle peaks of user transactions (including mobile & web). High availability (see the comment about 100% utilization with zero downtime for a decade above). The ability to apply analytics to transaction data on the mainframe and get real-time insight. All sorts of features that make Java amazing on the mainframe. Modern development tools. The ability to run different workloads (applications) that are completely - and securely - isolated from each other, so you can run dev, test, and production all in one box. And so much more.

IBM SmartCloud for System z - z/OS is one provider.

Coaches don’t usually give advice. That’s not the model. They help you figure out your own solution, and they can, if you ask, help you hold yourself accountable to implement that solution.

Now let’s see what the professional coach says. :-)