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 ...

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 ...

In 1964, IBM Corp. announced the IBM 360 family of computers, made possible by the invention of the transistor about eight years earlier. This was the first time computers of different sizes could use ...

BOSTON — Cheap little servers handle so much of the Internet’s dirty work that giant computers known as mainframes, which debuted 50 years ago and often cost more than $1 million, are supposed to be ...

This is the third in a series of newsletters that is exploring our premise that we are returning to a new generation of mainframe computing. With that in mind, this newsletter will continue the ...

There are few advantages to growing old, but if you were lucky enough to train, back in the hidden midst of times past, in programming languages COBOL or PL/I, you may have landed in later life into a ...

Barry Schrager, the original architect of mainframe security, hasn't lost faith that his approach to securing the enterprise is the superior approach. And he believes the future of security can be ...

Around a third of modernisation projects that lift and shift mainframe workloads to a distributed architecture often fail, according to a regional executive at Rocket Software. In an interview with ...

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