Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he’s likely to roll his eyes. Cloud is just a much-hyped new name for what mainframes have done for years, he’ll say. “A mainframe is a cloud,” ...

Creating a curriculum and materials to make the mainframe visible to students is the driver behind the textbook “Introduction to Enterprise Systems.” In this interview with authors Dr. Cameron Seay, ...

In many ways, the modern computer era began in the New Englander Motor Hotel in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met in secret to figure out how to ...

TOKYO--Escalating cost, inability to support business agility and the limited availability of modern software, are some of the key factors driving mainframe customers to migrate from the age-old ...

The new Windows support comes via x86 processor-based blades that plug into IBM's BladeCenter Extension, said Doris Conti, System z marketing director at IBM. The zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension, or ...

Known as drab-looking machines that sit in huge air-conditioned rooms, the IBM mainframe computer has been called the dinosaur of the technology world. About a decade ago, pundits predicted it would ...

The mainframe-Linux alliance turns 20 this month and is proving to be more vital than ever, primarily in the form of Big Iron-based Red Hat OpenShift. The mainframe has been declared “dead,” “morphed” ...

It’s past time to retire the myth that mainframes, those impenetrable-looking boxes understood by only a few IT magicians, still store 80 percent of all corporate data. Since their introduction in the ...

The mainframe business is to I.B.M. what manufacturing is to the American economy, a shrinking but strategically vital part of the franchise. With the introduction of a new generation of mainframes on ...