John Markoff Steve Lohr of the New York Times has a good piece on an interesting product that you and I won’t be buying: IBM’s new mainframe computer, which Big Blue announced today. The story ...

International Business Machines Corp. on Monday unveiled its next generation of mainframes, the industrial-strength computers that underpin industries such as banking and insurance, highlighting an ...

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The mainframe, the aged yet surprisingly resilient survivor of computing, is getting a face-lift. A model called the IBM z10, which is being introduced Tuesday, is far faster and has three times the ...

My friend Wilfried in the Netherlands (he hates it if I say he's from Holland, in which case he once again explains the difference to me at great length) just pointed me toward an interesting blog on ...

The venerable mainframe computer is experiencing a surprising but well-deserved resurgence, as the organizations that depend on these systems realize how important they are for digital initiatives and ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

The era of mainframe computers and directly programming machines with switches is long past, but plenty of us look back on that era with a certain nostalgia. Getting that close to the hardware and ...

A backlog of legacy software applications has many state government agencies clinging to costly mainframe computers, despite growing pressure to shut them down, the National Association of State ...

Large-scale companies usually use mainframe computers for centralized management and to reduce the costs of IT resources. While smaller businesses do not have access to the same level of hardware and ...