Savvy IT pros have been tinkering with mainframe partitioning for years. But with the sudden proliferation of single-task servers, especially for the Internet, partitioning big iron to consolidate ...

Aside from getting up to speed on what it means to run Linux on a mainframe, I learned a few other things, thanks to ZDNet's readers who responded to my column on how SuSE is infusing "Blue" blood (as ...

IBM at an Open Source Summit North America conference today improved its case for deploying applications on an instance of Linux running on a mainframe. An update to the distribution of Linux that IBM ...

Everything old is new again. In the 1960s, IBM's 650 mainframe operating system had two modes, MFT and MVT, in which process got its own address space and couldn't interface with others processes ...

Serena Software, a provider of application development and release management solutions, is shipping a new version of its change, configuration, and release management solution for mainframes running ...

BMC Software, an enterprise systems management tools provider, announced a new solution designed to help reduce the need for multiple mainframe subsystems. The new software, BMC Subsystem Optimizer ...

BMC Software has extended its efforts to help IT organizations keep their mainframe software licensing fees under control to now include DB2, IMS and IBM CICS transaction processing software. The BMC ...