Big Blue is set to announce upgrades to its mainframe computer, refreshing a high-end server line many had given up as extinct. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

IBM is embarking on a five-year campaign to promote mainframe computers by making the systems easier to configure and operate. It also plans to promote them as an alternative to server network ...

ALBANY - IBM has released its newest mainframe computer server - the z16 - that uses artificial intelligence and chips developed in Albany that protect businesses and consumers from hackers even ...

The CICS (Customer Information Control System) application server, which runs on the IBM mainframe, processes 1.1m transactions per second, significantly more than the number of Google searches. Yet ...

Mainframe computers are often seen as ancient machines—practically dinosaurs. But mainframes, which are purpose-built to process enormous amounts of data, are still extremely relevant today. If ...

IBM today is expected to announce a mainframe computer priced significantly lower than its previous products and targeted at customers looking to run a number of applications on one centralized ...

Mainframe upgrades and high performance computing (HPC) have helped to limit the decline in server sales for Q2 2015, according to analyst IDC. In the second quarter of 2015 the EMEA server market saw ...

Representatives from seventeen groups that had ordered the IBM 704 mainframe computer meet at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California. The outcome of the meeting was the first computer user's ...