The drive to combine the mainframe computer and the cloud – at first sight perhaps seen as an attempt to join chalk with cheese’ – continues to gather pace, and is attracting new players that are ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Mainframe computing is having a moment — again. Nearly 60 years after the first IBM System/360 debuted as a mainframe platform, it continues to evolve in ways that defy expectations, powering critical ...

IBM’s continued expanding support of Linux and Open Source projects makes sense given that these platforms and tools provide much of today’s connected infrastructure. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

The prototypical high-tech "unicorn" is a startup that investors view as the next big thing. Rocket Software, which recently joined the club of private companies valued at $1 billion or more, is an ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is eyeing mainframe workloads with a new partner competency programme that will validate and recognise systems integrators and consulting firms that have the knowhow to move ...

The mainframe specialist overhauls its highest-end servers, hoping to rejuvenate sales of its traditional mainframe line with new designs based on its high-end Intel servers. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Kristine Harper was a high school senior when she took her first mainframe class. Six years later she’s a professional mainframe programmer and platform evangelist to young people beginning their IT ...

When IBM first introduced the idea of a mainframe virtual machine back in the 1960s, few people would have predicted that the IT industry would have come full circle more than 40 years later. But ...

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In a 2009 survey, 1,546 IT managers who are responsible for mainframe operations revealed their top management priorities. Read on for some best practices for addressing those needs. A few weeks ago, ...