Ask most people about mainframes and they’re likely to think they’re a thing from the past. In a way they’re right, of course. The mainframe has been around for half a century or more. But mainframes ...
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 ...
STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Companies that use mainframes in their current IT operations expect to increase their mainframe spending even as they increase their adoption of public cloud, ...
Richard Plessala’s IT career was launched at Sirius, a CDW company, in 2003. There, he has spent 19 successful years providing IT solutions to clients through individual sales roles, specialist roles ...
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, ...
Mainframe computers are often seen as ancient machines—practically dinosaurs. But mainframes, which are purpose-built to process enormous amounts of data, are still extremely relevant today. If ...
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VirtualZ Computing, which provides an out-of-the-box solution to connect mainframes to hybrid cloud for bi-directional data access, today announced that it has raised ...
‘One of the hardest things for people to digest is that we're not making a copy of the data. We're not replicating the data. We're not touching the data. The data stays on the mainframe. So now ...
IBM is doubling the processing power of its mainframes, the first upgrade of its core product line in two years, in a move analysts say can help spur sales growth across the world’s largest computer ...
More than 80% of banks surveyed are now looking at moving mainframe workloads to the cloud, up from just over 30% that use it today. Why the readiness to “swipe left” on their mainframe and COBOL ...
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 ...
My co-workers and I often banter about the best way to manage data center storage resources. My co-workers, who primarily work on mainframes, unabashedly inform me that the only way is the mainframe ...