Mainframe computers are often perceived as relics of the past but in reality, they continue to be the backbone of the global economy. Critical data related to finance, government, and other sensitive ...

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 ...

A couple of years after generative AI first entered mainstream consciousness, every industry segment is attempting to leverage it to improve efficiency and offer new products and services. While ...

Creating a curriculum and materials to make the mainframe visible to students is the driver behind the textbook “Introduction to Enterprise Systems.” In this interview with authors Dr. Cameron Seay, ...

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,” ...

Richard Plessala’s IT career was launched at Sirius, a CDW company, in 2003. There, he has spent 19 successful years providing IT solutions to clients through individual sales roles, specialist roles ...

Companies that build mainframe computers, especially in the Intel-based architecture lines, have decided that these mainframes can compete with traditional virtual and cloud infrastructures for market ...

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Ask most people about mainframes and they’re likely to think they’re a thing from the past. In a way they’re right, of course. The mainframe has been around for half a century or more. But mainframes ...