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The Future of the Mainframe – Innovation Driver or Relic?
Find out why the mainframe is still indispensable despite modern cloud technologies and scalable architectures in our exclusive white paper. This white paper analyzes the mainframe's unparalleled strengths, such as speed, reliability and massive I/O bandwidth. It highlights current trends, including hybrid cloud integrations, AI-powered automation and sustainability advantages.
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What Is a Mainframe?
A mainframe computer, often referred to as “big iron”, is a powerful computing system used by large organizations for essential tasks such as mass data processing and enterprise resource planning. Although mainframes are smaller than supercomputers, they offer higher computing power compared to other computers classes.
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Where Enterprise Automation Is Heading: Insights from the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SOAP
The move from traditional workload automation to intelligent, end-to-end orchestration is accelerating. This change is one of the clearest signals we've seen from the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAP), and it comes at an important moment for Beta Systems. For the second year in a row, Beta Systems has been positioned as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SOAP. But beyond vendor positioning, the 2026 report provides an important view into where enterprise automation is heading. The evolution is not simply from job scheduling to more sophisticated workload automation. SOAPs are increasingly becoming the operational layer connecting applications, infrastructure, data pipelines, cloud services, and now AI agents. Here are our key takeaways from the 2026 research.
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Digital Sovereignty Is Now an Award Criterion - What This Means for Public Contracting Authorities
For years, public procurement authorities faced the same dilemma when purchasing IT: technological independence, data sovereignty, and the ability to exit were clearly relevant from a technical perspective, but difficult to address under procurement law. Authorities that made them procurement criteria risked challenges based on discrimination or insufficient connection to the contract's subject matter. As a result, the system favored the lowest price. With the Procurement Acceleration Act, which took effect on July 1, 2026, lawmakers have resolved this dilemma.