IBM user group executives from Share were out this week drumming up interest for their upcoming meeting in Orlando, Fla., but also playing up some of the more important aspects of the group’s recently ...

We’ve all read the stories; the mainframe is doomed. FedEx has announced its sunset of the final 20% of its mainframes by 2024, and surely other companies will follow suit. The data center is doomed ...

Kristine Harper was a high school senior when she took her first mainframe class. Six years later she’s a professional mainframe programmer and platform evangelist to young people beginning their IT ...

The first mainframes were behemoth machines that could occupy entire city blocks. Since then, the mainframe has compacted and evolved into a cutting edge state—similar to other technologies modernized ...

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Demand for mainframe modernization is growing in the U.S. public sector as governments and institutions struggle to meet changing constituent needs with antiquated ...

I was on a call with Broadcom last week. A representative from a bank was also on the call and talked about how their use of a mainframe computer was connected to their commitment to security, ...

Tackling the enormous challenge of updating outmoded government computer systems is a bit like opening a time capsule. Several federal agencies are still using mainframes installed during the Nixon ...

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, ...

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 ...