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 ...

IBM is using relevant but aging data-center technology to present its products as the ones big companies should use to tie together increasingly disparate IT infrastructures that span not only ...

The global banking sector is experiencing the most significant technological shift since the introduction of the mainframe. Generative AI has moved from experimentation to board‑level priority in less ...

While the likes of VMware and others talk up the benefits of virtualisation in server consolidation, this is really old news, according to Christopher O'Malley - in fact 37 years old. That's how long ...

IBM mainframes are known for very unusual terminals. But IBM made many different things, including the IBM 3151 ASCII terminal, which uses a cartridge to emulate a VT220 terminal. [Norbert Keher] has ...

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 ...

The bleeding edge? The industrial-strength mainframe computer, developed decades ago for heavy-duty data processing, continues proving its staying power even as next-generation artificial intelligence ...

IBM today is marking the 40th anniversary of its first mainframe by introducing the zSeries 890 mainframe server for midsize enterprise customers. “We’re introducing a brand-new IBM eServer zSeries ...

When you think of mainframes, you probably think of spinning tape drives, reams of computer cards, and text-only, green-on-black 3270 terminals. IBM's latest mainframe, the LinuxONE Emperor 5, is not ...

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 ...