The venerable mainframe computer is experiencing a surprising but well-deserved resurgence, as the organizations that depend on these systems realize how important they are for digital initiatives and ...

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 ...

Big Blue's new z990 is the most significant machine so far in the company's effort to marry the largely unique capabilities of the mainframe computer to prevailing computing trends. Stephen Shankland ...

The drive to combine the mainframe computer and the cloud – at first sight perhaps seen as an attempt to join chalk with cheese’ – continues to gather pace, and is attracting new players that are ...

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