A vast majority of executives say their businesses accelerated transformation efforts in the face of rapidly changing market environments, according to those involved in a survey conducted by the IBM ...

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 ...

Some people believe the mainframe is obsolete – an ancient relic of 1960s computing. For others, it serves an important role as long as it sticks to its knitting, handling core transaction processing ...

Business demands are changing. The pace of business is quickening. We are in the midst of a business performance revolution, one where companies and customers alike expect instant access to the tools ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Mainframes are gaining crucial cloud capabilities, which simplifies digital business transformations in larger enterprises. Leaving your mainframe-based applications and data out of your digital ...

Mainframe applications are no longer as internally focused as they once were, O'Flynn contends. For example, he says, in banking in the past, a mainframe application would be used by the bankers - ...

BT Group (BT) is moving a number of its mainframe applications to the cloud with IBM spin-off, Kyndryl. Part of a ten-year partnership between the two companies, Kyndryl will help BT to move critical ...

PALM DESERT, CALIF.—When San Diego City Schools, California’s second-largest school district, decided it needed to modernize its applications and bring new functionality to end users, it did its ...

Mainframe users looking to bring legacy applications into the public or private cloud world have a new option: LzLabs, a mainframe software migration vendor. Founded in 2011 and based in Switzerland, ...

When it comes to the mainframe, Microsoft has two distinct personalities. While the software giant would like to believe the Windows platform can replace anything that runs on the mainframe, the ...

The drive to combine the mainframe computer and the cloud – at first sight perhaps seen as an attempt to join chalk with cheese’ – continues to gather pace, and is attracting new players that are ...