IBM user group executives from Share were out this week drumming up interest for their upcoming meeting in Orlando, Fla., but also playing up some of the more important aspects of the group’s recently ...

People turn off when they hear the word mainframes. That’s real ‘people people’ as well as ‘techie people’, who we might suppose would lend a more sympathetic ear to hearing about these computing ...

Despite numerous predictions to the contrary over the past 10 years, mainframes are still a going concern. In fact, changes such as the Internet, e-business and Linux, which were meant to render ...

Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he’s likely to roll his eyes. Cloud is just a new name — and a lot of hype — for what mainframes have done for years, he’ll say. “A mainframe ...

But they are out there, humming away in the background, running the deepest part of our electronically interlocked lives. At Visa, the San Francisco-based financial services company, banks of them ...

For those who know little about International Business Machines (IBM +0.06%), the company's hulking System Z mainframe computers may seem like little more than a relic. The 42% year-over-year decline ...

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Remember when you got your driver’s license? That was a pretty big day. Now imagine that as the person at the DMV handed you your card, he or she also slipped you permits to operate a boat, drive a ...

For two decades, people in tech circles have been saying that the mainframe is on its way out, or that it's dead altogether. Funny thing about that -- someone forgot to tell IBM. Just look at IBM's ...