However, some of the machines' traditional tasks have been shifted to lower-cost computers in many corporate networks, leading rivals to denigrate the mainframe as a dinosaur. The market for ...

Mainframes, the back-end computers supporting everyday life, are facing a looming crisis Farhaz Thobani Special to The Globe and Mail Published July 16, 2024 ...

In a massive technological undertaking that analysts said will change the way airlines do business, Sabre Holdings Corp. is shedding its decades-old mainframe-based legacy system.

ARMONK, N.Y. – 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 ...

The tools are available, so get on with it. I further made the point that, ultimately, what every IT team wants is the simplicity of securing and managing a mainframe system from circa 40+ years ago.

That didn’t appear to be a problem at first. But Flieger’s data center design, with its Windows terminals and MetaFrame back end, looked a lot like the old mainframe-based time-sharing model ...

CIO Journal Mainframes Find New Life in AI Era Banks, insurance providers and airlines still find uses, including artificial intelligence, for the large computers that have been around for decades ...

What did work well, I think, was that smaller computers (AS/400 or iSeries) and mainframes were places to host other companies’ apps. We call hosting other companies’ apps SaaS platforms today ...

The U.S. tech giant said the amount includes an investment of over $30B in research and development to advance and continue IBM's American manufacturing of mainframe and quantum computers.