We’d had a Unisys mainframe here since the late ’70s or early ’80s, and we were at the end of our current five-year licensing contract. We either had to purchase a new mainframe or go to a new ...

Many of us used “big iron” back in the day. Computers like the IBM S/360 or 3090 are hard to find, transport, and operate, so you don’t see many retrocomputer enthusiasts with an S/370 in their ...

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 ...

While International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) now derives most of its revenue from software and consulting, the decades-old mainframe business is still an important part of the century-old tech ...

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 got an early-morning laugh out of this post on Timothy Sipple's Mainframe blog: Will the popular press ever get it right about mainframe-hosted applications? I'm still waiting, after seeing this one ...

Big Blue will spend $100 million over five years to make the high-end server line easier to administer and program. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Postal Service IT officials have upgraded the service's 15-year-old mainframe system to handle more transactions and lower the cost of operating the system. If you’ve gone to USPS.com to track and ...

Meanwhile, over at the Mainframe Blog, Timothy Sipples makes his case: Industry old timers still tell stories of the IBM mainframe salesmen who could sell three systems by February and spend the next ...

An in-depth look at the latest trends and technologies in enterprise networking. Just got back from a Commvault event in London (where I saw more people in 10 seconds than I do in a month in Devon!) ...

The launch of the AI-focused z17 mainframe earlier this year has been a major success. Infrastructure is expected to drive 1.5 percentage points of revenue growth in 2025 for IBM. IBM boosted its ...