Mainframe computers are often perceived as relics of the past but in reality, they continue to be the backbone of the global economy. Critical data related to finance, government, and other sensitive ...

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 ...

A couple of years after generative AI first entered mainstream consciousness, every industry segment is attempting to leverage it to improve efficiency and offer new products and services. While ...

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 ...

Companies that build mainframe computers, especially in the Intel-based architecture lines, have decided that these mainframes can compete with traditional virtual and cloud infrastructures for market ...

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 ...

If you’ve been following this blog, you may have seen me mention mainframes are popular with banks and financial institutions. In reading that again and again, you may have thought to yourself, “So ...

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, ...

As we celebrate the mainframe’s rich history, there’s a lot we can still learn from this technological marvel. Here are six lessons the modern mainframe has taught us over its last 60 years. The ...