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 ...

A couple of years after generative AI first entered mainstream consciousness, every industry segment is attempting to leverage it to improve efficiency and offer new products and services. While ...

Sixty years after the introduction of the first mainframe family, the IBM System/360, the monolithic computers remain in demand. As many as 89 percent of state CIOs reported relying on mainframes in ...

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 ...

If you’ve been following this blog, you may have seen me mention mainframes are popular with banks and financial institutions. In reading that again and again, you may have thought to yourself, “So ...

The bleeding edge? The industrial-strength mainframe computer, developed decades ago for heavy-duty data processing, continues proving its staying power even as next-generation artificial intelligence ...

Business and IT leaders alike realize cybersecurity threats are constantly evolving in today's digital economy. This even applies to the most securable platform, the mainframe. Sixty-three percent of ...

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, ...

A data security standard recommending strong security for banks that handle credit, debit or ATM transactions through a mainframe is expected to get even tougher in the coming months. It points to a ...

When IBM first introduced the idea of a mainframe virtual machine back in the 1960s, few people would have predicted that the IT industry would have come full circle more than 40 years later. But ...

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