The University of Florida has bought a lower-end IBM z800 mainframe along with 32 Intel servers to use in grid computing. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Big Blue is set to announce upgrades to its mainframe computer, refreshing a high-end server line many had given up as extinct. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Mainframe computers are often seen as ancient machines—practically dinosaurs. But mainframes, which are purpose-built to process enormous amounts of data, are still extremely relevant today. If ...

IBM Corp. is bringing the mainframe into the modern age with the latest version of its venerable hardware powered by a new processor that supports generative artificial intelligence and AI agent ...

ASG Technologies recently unveiled ASG-PRO/JCL 3.5, which increases productivity by enabling developers to run Job Control Language (JCL) scans from their preferred integrated development environments ...

IBM's latest mainframe is available with the option of a cut-down operating system that only runs newer software, and does not run traditional mainframe software such as CICS transaction processing.

IBM is releasing the latest version of its mainframe hardware that includes new updates meant to accelerate AI adoption. The hardware and consulting company on Monday announced IBM z17, the latest ...

While International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) now derives most of its revenue from software and consulting, the decades-old mainframe business is still an important part of the century-old tech ...

The mainframe, the hardware stalwart that has existed for decades, is continuing to be a force in the modern era. Among the vendors that still build mainframes is IBM, which today announced the latest ...

Mainframes entered the market in the early 1950's when IBM and the seven dwarfs (Burroughs, Unisys, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell, GE, and RCA) created the computing age and competed for critical ...