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 ...

As our digital society evolves, it becomes clearer how much the Mainframe plays a central role in our lives and work. But its inherent strengths include way more than the technology. It’s the ...

For decades, mainframes have powered the core operations of banks around the world. They remain integral to banking processes like transaction processing, record keeping, and regulatory compliance due ...

The mainframe business is thriving.

Around a third of modernisation projects that lift and shift mainframe workloads to a distributed architecture often fail, according to a regional executive at Rocket Software. In an interview with ...

BLACK HAT USA -- Las Vegas -- While most IT security teams tend to lump mainframe systems into the category of legacy systems unnecessary or impossible to scrutinize during regular audits, that couldn ...

IBM has worked hard in recent years to keep its mainframe franchise attractive to IT managers. The company has made the high-end machines Linux and Java friendly and it has developed ...