In this explainer, we’ll look at the IBM mainframe computer—what it is, how it works, and why it’s still going strong after over 50 years. Setting the stage ...

On June 19, 2015, UB officially shut down the IBM mainframe, transitioning to deliver the IT services it provided over to a number of smaller and more flexible machines. What exactly is a mainframe? A ...

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 … ...

Quick question: What is more than 60 years old, but still spry enough to beat the best mid-range clusters at big data? If your answer was the mainframe, then you're correct.

To the less technologically inclined, IBM’s new crop of mainframe computers introduced last week (pictured below) look like a large stylish refrigerator rather than a piece of tech wizardry. Yet ...

A mainframe is just a big computer, as defined by David Stephen s, author of What On Earth Is A Mainframe?, but more specifically the IBM zSeries computers. Simple as that. Mainframes date back to ...

Mainframe computers have handled our most precious data since the 1960s, but they’re being put online without adequate security.

— -- They are the dinosaurs of the computer industry. But anyone who thinks mainframe computers are going the way of typewriters and videocassette recorders is in for a surprise. "Big Iron ...

International Business Machines unveiled z13, a machine about the size of an extra-large refrigerator that IBM calls the most sophisticated computer ever built, in a move aimed at refreshing the ...

It's something that the mainframe experts at many companies are not only enthusiastic about, but are seriously considering for all sorts of applications and server consolidation opportunities.