Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he’s likely to roll his eyes. Cloud is just a much-hyped new name for what mainframes have done for years, he’ll say. “A mainframe is a cloud,” ...

The mainframe business is to I.B.M. what manufacturing is to the American economy, a shrinking but strategically vital part of the franchise. With the introduction of a new generation of mainframes on ...

Creating a curriculum and materials to make the mainframe visible to students is the driver behind the textbook “Introduction to Enterprise Systems.” In this interview with authors Dr. Cameron Seay, ...

TOKYO--Escalating cost, inability to support business agility and the limited availability of modern software, are some of the key factors driving mainframe customers to migrate from the age-old ...

In many ways, the modern computer era began in the New Englander Motor Hotel in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met in secret to figure out how to ...

It’s past time to retire the myth that mainframes, those impenetrable-looking boxes understood by only a few IT magicians, still store 80 percent of all corporate data. Since their introduction in the ...

The new Windows support comes via x86 processor-based blades that plug into IBM's BladeCenter Extension, said Doris Conti, System z marketing director at IBM. The zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension, or ...

Known as drab-looking machines that sit in huge air-conditioned rooms, the IBM mainframe computer has been called the dinosaur of the technology world. About a decade ago, pundits predicted it would ...

The mainframe-Linux alliance turns 20 this month and is proving to be more vital than ever, primarily in the form of Big Iron-based Red Hat OpenShift. The mainframe has been declared “dead,” “morphed” ...