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 ...

For decades, mainframes and COBOL-based systems have been the backbone of enterprise computing, powering industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and government. Despite the rise of modern ...

Mainframes entered the market in the early 1950's when IBM and the seven dwarfs (Burroughs, Unisys, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell, GE, and RCA) created the computing age and competed for critical ...

The digital-first imperative, combined with cost and skills factors, have many businesses re-evaluating their commitment to the mainframe, say T S Lakshmi Narasimhan and Pavankumar Murali, Cognizant ...

Many companies, including banks, are still buying and maintaining mainframes despite a global shift to the cloud. IBM is seeing an increase in mainframe sales. And a recent survey conducted by IDC ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

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 ...

Kristine Harper was a high school senior when she took her first mainframe class. Six years later she’s a professional mainframe programmer and platform evangelist to young people beginning their IT ...

Mainframe systems have served as the foundation of enterprise IT for decades, known for their unparalleled reliability, security, and ability to support critical operations. However, the rapid ...

Around a third of modernisation projects that lift and shift mainframe workloads to a distributed architecture often fail, according to a regional executive at Rocket Software. In an interview with ...