The way we interact with computers hasn’t fundamentally changed in decades, even as software has grown increasingly powerful and complex. In today’s work environment, professionals spend countless ...

The cloud killed the mainframe? I'm not so sure. Let's take a look at what the next decade has in store for big iron. For more than 50 years mainframes have powered thousands of organizations around ...

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 ...

Mainframe workload modernization startup Mechanical Orchard Inc. said it’s hoping to gain more enterprise traction today after closing on a $24 million early-stage funding round led by Emergence ...

I look back at my mainframe days very fondly. Hired to be a GIS code monkey on VM/SP, I would up also managing our machine, applying PUTs and even performing the upgade from VM/SP 5 to VM/SP 6--heady ...

Not so fast. Mainframes have more staying power than most understand. Let’s look at the realities of mainframe technology and the people who operate it. One of the things that has often driven me nuts ...

The mainframe, long the backbone of enterprise computing, is enjoying a surge of support as modernization projects bear fruit, according to BMC Software Inc.’s 20th annual mainframe survey. It found ...

As virtualization makes its way deeper and deeper into the data center, organizations are starting to leverage virtualization not only for the flexibility, efficiency, and reduced cost of ownership it ...

PALM DESERT, CALIF.—When San Diego City Schools, California’s second-largest school district, decided it needed to modernize its applications and bring new functionality to end users, it did its ...

‘Mainframe is dead!’ has long been a cry within the IT industry but the reality is, many organisations still rely heavily upon mainframes with data sitting on them around the 12EB (yes, exabyte) mark ...

As someone who lives and breathes mainframes, I often forget that people who aren’t part of this world don’t always believe some of the truths that I believe to be self-evident. One common way that I ...