The era of mainframe computers and directly programming machines with switches is long past, but plenty of us look back on that era with a certain nostalgia. Getting that close to the hardware and ...

A small Minneapolis mainframe computer software startup is poised to change the way enterprises use and share data across the cloud. VirtualZ Computing Inc. claims to be the first and only ...

John Markoff Steve Lohr of the New York Times has a good piece on an interesting product that you and I won’t be buying: IBM’s new mainframe computer, which Big Blue announced today. The story ...

On3, 2026, Anthropic unveiled Claude Code, an AI tool capable of modernizing decades-old COBOL systems in months rather than years.

Mainframes are no longer seen as a constraint on public sector digital transformation, with government agencies abandoning rip-and-replace strategies in favour of modernising mainframe systems with hy ...

Not so fast. Mainframes have more staying power than most understand. Let’s look at the realities of mainframe technology and the people who operate it. One of the things that has often driven me nuts ...

Around a third of modernisation projects that lift and shift mainframe workloads to a distributed architecture often fail, according to a regional executive at Rocket Software. In an interview with ...

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 ...

(AP) IBM on Tuesday introduced a new line of mainframe computers the company calls its most powerful and technologically advanced ever. IBM said its zEnterprise EC12 mainframe server is designed to ...