I look back at my mainframe days very fondly. Hired to be a GIS code monkey on VM/SP, I would up also managing our machine, applying PUTs and even performing the upgade from VM/SP 5 to VM/SP 6--heady ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. For the better part of three decades now, IBM's mainframes -- often referred to as big iron -- have been coming under ...

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 ...

As our digital society evolves, it becomes clearer how much the Mainframe plays a central role in our lives and work. But its inherent strengths include way more than the technology. It’s the ...

Mainframe specialty processors are great candidates for delivering cost savings. Offloading work to zIIPs can result in huge savings in the total cost per MIPS (as much as $7,000/MIPS), and free up ...

Big Blue's new z990 is the most significant machine so far in the company's effort to marry the largely unique capabilities of the mainframe computer to prevailing computing trends. Stephen Shankland ...

Around a third of modernisation projects that lift and shift mainframe workloads to a distributed architecture often fail, according to a regional executive at Rocket Software. In an interview with ...

Before servers ran Java, mainframes ran COBOL. Many mainframes today still run COBOL. Developers simply can't refactor a COBOL app and translate it into Java and run it on a server. Instead, this type ...

Suppose there’s a shortage of a particular IT skill set. We all know what happens, don’t we? Those skills become hot. Training courses spring up. Salaries go through the roof. And the one thing that ...

My best example of how non-mainframe people just don't get it, is by asking how well most English (any version including American) speakers know their version of English when they only know that one ...

The trajectory of Compuware's development over the last few years raises some interesting areas of speculation as to where it might all lead, especially when one couples it with what looks set to be ...