IBM user group executives from Share were out this week drumming up interest for their upcoming meeting in Orlando, Fla., but also playing up some of the more important aspects of the group’s recently ...

But they are out there, humming away in the background, running the deepest part of our electronically interlocked lives. At Visa, the San Francisco-based financial services company, banks of them ...

Despite numerous predictions to the contrary over the past 10 years, mainframes are still a going concern. In fact, changes such as the Internet, e-business and Linux, which were meant to render ...

People turn off when they hear the word mainframes. That’s real ‘people people’ as well as ‘techie people’, who we might suppose would lend a more sympathetic ear to hearing about these computing ...

Kristine Harper was a high school senior when she took her first mainframe class. Six years later she’s a professional mainframe programmer and platform evangelist to young people beginning their IT ...

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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- On the eve of a milestone, one of the world's premier high-tech machines is simultaneously new and old. It's 50 years old, if you track back to its ancestors. It's shiny-new and ...

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,” ...

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A 42% sales decline sounds bad, but it's actually business as usual. But investors shouldn't worry about this mainframe sales collapse. It's happened before, and it will happen again. IBM's System Z ...