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 ...

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 ...

Mainframes continue to excel at traditional tasks such as high-speed transaction processing and running large batch workloads. Mainframes also have the ability to easily handle large amounts of ...

The Vermont Department of Labor in Montpelier used to be home to the mainframe computer that runs the state’s unemployment benefits system. Now, the system runs on a much more modern mainframe in New ...

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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 ...

Bob Evans, an IBM computer scientist who helped to develop the modern mainframe computer, died Thursday. He was 77. Evans died of heart failure at his home in the San Francisco suburb of Hillsborough, ...