And IBM has been promoting mainframes as cloud platforms for several years. The company’s introduction last year of the zEnterprise, which gives organizations the option of combining mainframe and ...

Sixty years after the introduction of the first mainframe family, the IBM System/360, the monolithic computers remain in demand. As many as 89 percent of state CIOs reported relying on mainframes in ...

Mainframe computing is having a moment — again. Nearly 60 years after the first IBM System/360 debuted as a mainframe platform, it continues to evolve in ways that defy expectations, powering critical ...

Few IT technologies are as long lived as the venerable mainframe, which has been part of the infrastructure landscape for well over 50 years. According to BMC's 18th annual mainframe report released ...

IBM launched the latest version of its dominant mainframe platform — the z17 — at its virtual IBM Z Day event this week. The z17, which features comprehensive AI integration, is designed to bring AI ...

If you believe the stories, IBM’s mainframe has in the last 10 years been knocked down and gotten back up more times than most of the characters in all the Terminator, Die Hard and Rocky movies ...

Not so fast. Mainframes have more staying power than most understand. Let’s look at the realities of mainframe technology and the people who operate it. One of the things that has often driven me nuts ...

The mainframe provides companies with exactly the computational power and stability they need to modernise infrastructure and benefit from emerging technologies. By Tamsin Mackay Johannesburg, 20 Mar ...

On April 7, 1964, International Business Machines introduced a new computer dubbed the System/360 but called a “mainframe” in reference to the large cabinet that housed the circuit boards. The low-end ...

IBM Tuesday is set to launch the System z10, its next-generation mainframe, featuring quad-core processors and aimed at computing-intensive tasks. Compared to its predecessor, the z9, the new ...

As virtualization makes its way deeper and deeper into the data center, organizations are starting to leverage virtualization not only for the flexibility, efficiency, and reduced cost of ownership it ...