Mainframe computers are often perceived as relics of the past but in reality, they continue to be the backbone of the global economy. Critical data related to finance, government, and other sensitive ...

Luboslava Uram is CTO and managing director at Solvd Group, a subsidiary of Allianz Group. Transforming the claim management experience. Mainframe computers have been a foundational technology in ...

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

Moving off dead-end mainframes to the more nimble cloud is a slow process but one worth pursuing, one workload at a time. Moore’s Law—you know, the number of transistors in a chip doubles about every ...

Mainframes were the punchline of jokes in the early days of cloud computing, but their steady dependability is still critical to IT architectures. A certain Fortune 500 financial institution decided ...

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 ...

And IBM has been promoting mainframes as cloud platforms for several years. The company’s introduction last year of the zEnterprise, which gives organizations the option of combining mainframe and ...

The new systems, IBM's first mainframes with a starting price of about $100,000, aim to replace hundreds of smaller servers in order to increase data center manageability and reduce power consumption, ...