Big Blue is to release z/OS, its z900 mainframe operating system upgraded to take advantage of the new model's 64-bit design. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Compuware Corp. (www.compuware.com), a mainframe-dedicated software company, has released a survey of large company CIOs showing that while most (78%) say their mainframe is more secure than other ...

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 ...

Who in their right mind would design a system that would allow a single terminal or PC, halfway around the world, to download or file transfer a complete consumer or federal database? And why is this ...

International Business Machines CorporationIBM is reportedly acquiring mainframe service business of T-Systems, per Reuters. Per IT-Zoom website (as revealed by Reuters), IBM is likely to pay 860 ...

This article was originally published on the Confluent blog. COVID-19 has created extraordinary challenges in virtually every industry. While much attention has been focused on the pandemic’s effect ...

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 for ...

IBM Corp. today announced plans to release a promised 64-bit version of its mainframe operating system later this week — a move that users and analysts said should provide a crucial foundation for ...

When people think of mainframes, they typically envision ancient, obsolete technology running arcane spaghetti code – systems that IT management would love to retire if only they could free themselves ...

IBM's latest big iron features full-scale encryption and a major boost to processing power. The last major mainframe refresh came in January 2015 with the launch of the System z13. The z13 is capable ...

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