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 ...

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 ...

Despite numerous predictions to the contrary over the past 10 years, mainframes are still a going concern. In fact, changes such as the Internet, e-business and Linux, which were meant to render ...

But IT shops are now waking up to find that the mainframe still runs the key enterprise applications, and that the mainframe room is due for some “home improvement.” Application development managers ...

Data is certainly the fuel for AI. Yet there is a source of valuable data that usually does not garner much attention. It is from mainframe systems. They hold enormous amounts of data—which go back ...

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 ...