The hulking, blinking mainframes that began doing the world’s computational heavy lifting decades ago remain prevalent, and today’s latest software is helping to keep them relevant. For the Internet ...

When I was briefed on BMC’s annual Mainframe Research Results, the largest survey on opinions surrounding the mainframe that I know of, I thought about how it showcases a couple of very interesting ...

I.B.M. has announced new servers that behave more like mainframes and are priced as low as $1500. The servers will be able to run as many as 10 operating systems on a single machine. One processor can ...

In his role as Senior Business Development Strategist and Senior Public Safety Strategist at CDW•G, Matt Parnofiello manages technology integration projects with public safety agencies from concept to ...

IBM is launching what it calls a “skinny mainframe” for cloud computing. The system is built around IBM z14 mainframe technology, and it features a 19-inch industry standard, single-frame case design, ...

Allan Sulkin sent along this link to a NYT article on "survivor technologies," the chief case in point being the mainframe. It's become a stock comparison, at VoiceCon, to liken the PBX to the ...

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Only half a dozen years ago, the computing world was abuzz over the seemingly limitless possibilities of the PC client/server networks that were popping up everywhere. As a result, computer-industry ...

In the financial services industry, where IT systems are high-volume and mission-critical, news of Big Iron’s ‘big crisis’ is greatly exaggerated, at least for now. It’s true that in today’s digital ...

Mainframes were the punchline of jokes in the early days of cloud computing, but their steady dependability is still critical to IT architectures. A certain Fortune 500 financial institution decided ...

When the first global distribution systems (GDS), such as American Airlines Inc.’s Sabre, came on the scene, they pioneered the use of computers in large-scale commercial applications and the ...