Mainframe computers are often perceived as relics of the past but in reality, they continue to be the backbone of the global economy. Critical data related to finance, government, and other sensitive ...

Mainframes entered the market in the early 1950's when IBM and the seven dwarfs (Burroughs, Unisys, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell, GE, and RCA) created the computing age and competed for critical ...

Mainframe computers are often seen as ancient machines—practically dinosaurs. But mainframes, which are purpose-built to process enormous amounts of data, are still extremely relevant today. If ...

Big iron has been a staple of enterprise data processing for half a century, but is the mainframe era coming to an end? Mainframes tend to divide opinion amongst IT professionals. On one side there’s ...

Companies that build mainframe computers, especially in the Intel-based architecture lines, have decided that these mainframes can compete with traditional virtual and cloud infrastructures for market ...

A couple of years after generative AI first entered mainstream consciousness, every industry segment is attempting to leverage it to improve efficiency and offer new products and services. While ...

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, ...

Is the mainframe still necessary? Well, let’s put it this way: If all the world’s mainframes shut down, we’d be facing a zombie apocalypse. That’s a bit hyperbolic but the underlying point stands: ...

Big Blue's new z990 is the most significant machine so far in the company's effort to marry the largely unique capabilities of the mainframe computer to prevailing computing trends. Stephen Shankland ...

Moving off dead-end mainframes to the more nimble cloud is a slow process but one worth pursuing, one workload at a time. Moore’s Law—you know, the number of transistors in a chip doubles about every ...

Forty years after Big Blue introduced the S/360, the zaftig systems are still going strong and finding a way to fit into 21st-century computing. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, ...

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