Big Blue has released two new higher-end models of its z990 mainframe, along with a promotion to coax customers to try blade servers and other products. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

IBM is expected later this month to announce its next-generation System z mainframe, its first update since the release of the z9 three years ago. It is promising improved energy efficiency, security ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

The company is sticking to an established market with its new servers, even though more companies these days are coming out with machines that act as alternatives to mainframes. Stephen Shankland ...

Sixty years after the introduction of the first mainframe family, the IBM System/360, the monolithic computers remain in demand. As many as 89 percent of state CIOs reported relying on mainframes in ...

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE -- Control Data Corporation (CDC) was once a significant supercomputer supplier, a name familiar to everyone in the computer industry, competing with companies like Cray ...

The cloud killed the mainframe? I'm not so sure. Let's take a look at what the next decade has in store for big iron. For more than 50 years mainframes have powered thousands of organizations around ...

The z800, code-named Raptor, is aimed at bringing advanced servers to a larger pool of customers, said Rich Lechner, vice president of sales and marketing for IBM's zSeries. He expects 75 percent to ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of a key new service that offers businesses a simple way to migrate their mainframe workloads to the cloud. AWS Mainframe ...

Moving off dead-end mainframes to the more nimble cloud is a slow process but one worth pursuing, one workload at a time. Moore’s Law—you know, the number of transistors in a chip doubles about every ...