Big Blue is set to announce upgrades to its mainframe computer, refreshing a high-end server line many had given up as extinct. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

When the next generation of IBM mainframe, the z17, makes its anticipated summer debut, it will be outfitted with multiple technologies aimed at making the Big Iron mainframe the ultimate AI ...

The S/360, the computer that spawned IBM's mainframe line, turns 40 on Wednesday--but it's not wallowing in a midlife crisis. Although some pundits regularly declare the death of the mainframe, ...

Intelligence Center features aim to unify management across on-prem, cloud, and containerized estates IBM has topped an ...

IBM continues to mold the Big Iron into a cloud and devops beast. This week IBM and its long-time ally CA teamed up to link the mainframe and its Cloud Managed Services on z Systems, or zCloud, ...

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 ...

Two new mainframe systems represent IBM's latest attempt to get its hardware into cloud data centers. All that processing power is housed in a system the size of a large refrigerator. That's fine ...

IBM is launching what it calls a “skinny mainframe” for cloud computing. The system is built around IBM z14 mainframe technology, and it features a 19-inch industry standard, single-frame case ...

A non-IBM mainframe that runs IBM mainframe operating systems and applications. In the late 1960s, RCA's computer division produced the Spectra 70, the first line of machines compatible with IBM ...

A complaint alleging that IBM has abused its position in the European mainframe market was filed with the European Commission on Tuesday. The complaint from T3, a small US supplier of mainframes ...