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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

People turn off when they hear the word mainframes. That’s real ‘people people’ as well as ‘techie people’, who we might suppose would lend a more sympathetic ear to hearing about these computing ...

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 ...

DataDirect Technologies announced availability this week of DataDirect Shadow version 7, for mainframe SOA environments. Version 7 incorporates technology to exploit IBM mainframe specialty engines ...

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 ...

Far from a throwback to another era, mainframe technology is giving the financial sector the tools to win in the digital age. In association withIBM When it comes to supporting DevOps initiatives, ...