Quick question: What is more than 60 years old, but still spry enough to beat the best mid-range clusters at big data? If your answer was the mainframe, then you're correct. By a virtual show of hands ...

On June 19, 2015, UB officially shut down the IBM mainframe, transitioning to deliver the IT services it provided over to a number of smaller and more flexible machines. What exactly is a mainframe? A ...

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 ...

When you think of mainframes, you probably have a mental picture from an old movie, with punch cards and a computer that takes up an entire large room. But the mainframe still lives, and is a viable ...

The expert team at Freeform Dynamics offer news and views on the latest hot topics, and pragmatic advice based on real-world experience and meaningful research studies. IT resilience and security is ...

IBM (NYSE:IBM) plans to invest $150B in the U.S. over the next five years to accelerate technology opportunity. The U.S. tech giant said the amount includes an investment of over $30B in research and ...

Representatives from seventeen groups that had ordered the IBM 704 mainframe computer meet at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California. The outcome of the meeting was the first computer user's ...

Believe it or not, there are still a fair number of large businesses that run on mainframe computers — yes, even in 2022. It may seem like a throwback from a time gone by, but it’s still a significant ...