Skyward Data
by VirtualZ
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About this podcast
Conversations That Power Smarter Data Strategies for AI, Cloud, and Innovation. Skyward Data brings you exclusive conversations with experts shaping the future of enterprise data. Discover how organizations are transforming data access, storage, and AI integration to fuel faster innovation and smarter decisions.
Each episode explores how to unlock the full power of your enterprise data—whether it lives on IBM Z, in the cloud, or deep in decades-old tape archives. We dive into real-world stories, bold ideas, and practical strategies for making mainframe and legacy data instantly accessible for AI, analytics, compliance, and modernization.
If you're building smarter systems, training better models, or powering transformation with trusted data—Skyward Data is your guide.
No fluff. No jargon. Just smart conversations about enterprise data, done right.
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Episodes
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- Built Today, for Today: Why Enterprises Are Choosing a New Standard for Data Sharing · 9 minMost enterprise data sharing tools were designed in the 1980s and 1990s, before TCP/IP was common and before the public cloud existed. In this episode of Skyward Data, Jeanne…
- Give Cloud Apps Live Access to Mainframe VSAM Data — Without Copying It · 47 minEvery plan to use mainframe data in the cloud starts the same way: "first, make a copy." In this Skyward Data episode, VirtualZ Computing Founder & CEO Jeanne Glass and…
- "Just Send Us the File": The Two-Sided Data Sharing Problem Between ISVs and Their Customers, and the One Engine That Solves Both · 57 minWhy does "just send us the file" take six to eight weeks per extract when an enterprise shares data with its ISV, and what changes when PropelZ from VirtualZ Computing runs on…
- PropelZ Multiplexer: Moving a Million Mainframe Data Sets from z/OS to the Cloud in Parallel · 36 minHow do you move a million mainframe data sets from IBM z/OS to the cloud without a multi-year project? VirtualZ Computing Executive Chairman Marc Sokol and CTO Vince Re walk…
- Why ETL and Change Data Capture Break at Mainframe Scale — and What Replaces Them · 1 h 0 minVirtualZ Computing Executive Chairman Marc Sokol and CTO Vince Re break down how a Fortune 500 retailer moved a 60-million-record VSAM file from z/OS to PostgreSQL in the cloud…
- Building PropelZ: Customer-Driven Mainframe Integration · 8 minHow does customer-driven development shape an enterprise mainframe data integration product? VirtualZ Computing CTO Vince Re explains how the most important features of PropelZ —…
- Real-Time SMF Archiving vs. Batch: Mainframe Audit Data · 12 minWhy do most enterprises still archive mainframe SMF records in daily batches when the records are created continuously? VirtualZ Computing CTO Vince Re explains how real-time SMF…
- Mainframe Cloud Backup with FlowZ: Cheaper, Faster, Off-Site · 12 minHow cheap and how fast can mainframe-to-cloud backup actually be? VirtualZ Computing CTO Vince Re shows how VirtualZ backs up its own IBM Z mainframe — system backups, source…
- Multi-Cloud Mainframe Data with PropelZ: One Pipeline · 13 minCan you route the same mainframe dataset to AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and IBM Cloud at once? VirtualZ Computing CTO Vince Re explains how PropelZ — VirtualZ's no-code tool for…
- Mainframe Security in Splunk: PropelZ SMF & RACF Feeds · 14 minHow do you get IBM Z mainframe security data into Splunk without custom development? VirtualZ Computing CTO Vince Re explains how the PropelZ Splunk connector — part of…
- The Mainframe Skills Gap: Closing It Without COBOL · 14 minWhat is the mainframe skills gap, and how can enterprises close it without hiring more COBOL programmers? VirtualZ Computing CTO Vince Re tackles one of the most pressing…
- App Store Economics for Mainframe Integration Software · 13 minWhat if enterprise integration software were priced like a smartphone app store — pick the specific capabilities you need and skip the ones you don't? VirtualZ Computing CTO…
- Unified Mainframe + Cloud Monitoring with PropelZ · 11 minHow do you monitor IBM Z mainframe and cloud infrastructure in one place instead of two separate systems? VirtualZ Computing CTO Vince Re explains how PropelZ's console logging…
- Skip the Copybooks: Automated DB2-to-Snowflake Migration · 8 minWhy does moving DB2 mainframe data to platforms like Snowflake still require weeks of manual COBOL copybook creation — and how can you skip that step entirely? VirtualZ Computing…
- Migrating 200,000+ Mainframe Datasets with PropelZ · 12 minHow do you migrate 200,000+ mainframe datasets to the cloud when transferring them one at a time would take months? VirtualZ Computing CTO Vince Re explains how the PropelZ…
- PropelZ 2.0: What's New in Mainframe Data Integration · 11 minWhat's new in PropelZ 2.0, and what does the release change for enterprise mainframe data integration? VirtualZ Computing CTO Vince Re walks through the major 2.0 release of…
- PropelZ for Linux: Data Movement Beyond the Mainframe · 41 minWhat happens when mainframe-grade data movement runs anywhere, not just on z/OS? VirtualZ Computing Co-Founder and CTO Vince Re joins Co-Founder Dustin Froyum to introduce…
- 460K VSAM Records in 25 Seconds: Rethinking VSAM → PostgreSQL at Enterprise Scale · 37 minWhat really slows down IBM Z modernization? It's not the application code — it's the data. In this episode of Skyward Data, VirtualZ Co-Founder Dusty Froyum and Marc Sokol…
- Modernizing Mainframe Data Access with Progress Software(56 characters.) · 52 minWhy does data access — not application code — stall so many enterprise modernization initiatives? In this episode of Skyward Data, the podcast from VirtualZ Computing, VirtualZ…
- The 2026 Framework for AI-Ready Enterprise Data · 7 minWhy do enterprises struggle to use their own data for AI — even when the data already exists? In this episode of Skyward Data, the podcast from VirtualZ Computing, VirtualZ CEO…
