When the first global distribution systems (GDS), such as American Airlines Inc.’s Sabre, came on the scene, they pioneered the use of computers in large-scale commercial applications and the ...

AI, hybrid cloud and cyber resilience are redefining, not replacing the modern mainframe.

Allan Sulkin sent along this link to a NYT article on "survivor technologies," the chief case in point being the mainframe. It's become a stock comparison, at VoiceCon, to liken the PBX to the ...

Consumers don’t care where the code runs when businesses fail. They care that every payment clears, claim processes, trade settles, and login works instantly, securely and without excuses. That ...

We’ve all read the stories; the mainframe is doomed. FedEx has announced its sunset of the final 20% of its mainframes by 2024, and surely other companies will follow suit. The data center is doomed ...

Tackling the enormous challenge of updating outmoded government computer systems is a bit like opening a time capsule. Several federal agencies are still using mainframes installed during the Nixon ...

But the controlled environment of the mainframe, and the basis for much of its security, traditionally requires an administrator to provision computing power to specific tasks. That’s the basis for ...

International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) traded actively this week amid a technology rotation, spanning hybrid cloud, ...

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 ...

In the Pennsylvania state government, the mainframe still plays a crucial role delivering applications to users and handling the government’s business. “We have some applications that are huge [and ...