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 ...

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 ...

Yalamanchili sees the evolution of mainframes as a reminder that progress does not always mean starting over. Sometimes, it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I had a recent conversation with Compuware CEO Christopher O'Malley and VP of Product Management Sam Knutson about Topaz on Amazon Web Services (AWS). I was told that the company's focus is to ...

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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 ...