Mainframe customers are taking a fresh look at the Big Iron that celebrated its 40th birthday last month. IBM is spurring things along with new pricing schemes; more powerful processors; support for ...

Syncsort, a global leader in Big Data and mainframe software, announced new capabilities in its industry leading data integration software, DMX-h, that for the first time, allow organizations to work ...

The cloud killed the mainframe? I'm not so sure. Let's take a look at what the next decade has in store for big iron. For more than 50 years mainframes have powered thousands of organizations around ...

Forty years after Big Blue introduced the S/360, the zaftig systems are still going strong and finding a way to fit into 21st-century computing. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, ...

The mainframe, long the backbone of enterprise computing, is enjoying a surge of support as modernization projects bear fruit, according to BMC Software Inc.’s 20th annual mainframe survey. It found ...

Syncsort, a global leader in Big Iron to Big Data solutions, announced the results from its annual “State of the Mainframe” survey, which underscore the rising importance of mainframe data as a ...

The Mission Viejo site of server maker and technology consulting company Unisys Corp. is at the heart of a turnaround effort at the company. Unisys’ bread and butter is making big mainframe servers ...

Is the mainframe still necessary? Well, let’s put it this way: If all the world’s mainframes shut down, we’d be facing a zombie apocalypse. That’s a bit hyperbolic but the underlying point stands: ...

IBM is expected later this month to announce its next-generation System z mainframe, its first update since the release of the z9 three years ago. It is promising improved energy efficiency, security ...

IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) plunged 16 percent Thursday on its Year 2000 warning and dragged down mainframe software companies with it. Computer Associates, Compuware and BMC Software all took hits.

Nevertheless, mainframe vendors contend that many companies want to use their big iron for cloud computing. In a CA Technologies-sponsored survey of 200 U.S. mainframe executives last fall, 73% of the ...

IBM’s mainframe division finished a disappointing 2009 with a 27 percent fourth quarter revenue decline, but Big Blue is hoping the next generation of its mainframe computer will boost sales in 2010.