The days when IBM 's mainframe computers held a monopoly on enterprise computing may have ended with the influx of cheaper x86 and Unix servers. But Big Blue is still reinventing its big iron. And now ...

Mainframes entered the market in the early 1950's when IBM and the seven dwarfs (Burroughs, Unisys, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell, GE, and RCA) created the computing age and competed for critical ...

I was reviewing Unisys continues to modernize its mainframes with mobile, open systems additions, a report authored by John Abbott, Founder and Distinguished Analyst of the 451 Group and was thinking ...

Fujitsu has announced it is to end mainframe sales in 2030, with support due cease in 2035. It also announced plans to discontinue its UNIX SPARC servers in 2029, and end support in 2034. Affected ...

The industrial-strength mainframe computer, invented decades ago for heavy-duty data processing, is proving its staying power even as next-generation artificial intelligence takes center stage. The ...

The first mainframes were behemoth machines that could occupy entire city blocks. Since then, the mainframe has compacted and evolved into a cutting edge state—similar to other technologies modernized ...

AI adoption is accelerating among mainframe users, and it’s spurring increased usage of the big iron platform, according to Kyndryl’s annual State of Mainframe Modernization Survey. Most mainframe ...

On April 7, 1964, International Business Machines introduced a new computer dubbed the System/360 but called a “mainframe” in reference to the large cabinet that housed the circuit boards. The low-end ...

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 ...