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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For those who know little about International Business Machines (IBM 0.56%), 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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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 ...

Janet L. Sun, Immediate Past President, SHARE Inc. discusses and refutes myths about mainframes. SHARE believes that the mainframe is the most secure, cost-effective and best performing mixed workload ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- On the eve of a milestone, one of the world's premier high-tech machines is simultaneously new and old. It's 50 years old, if you track back to its ancestors. It's shiny-new and ...

Big iron has been a staple of enterprise data processing for half a century, but is the mainframe era coming to an end? Mainframes tend to divide opinion amongst IT professionals. On one side there’s ...