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 ...

While International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) now derives most of its revenue from software and consulting, the decades-old mainframe business is still an important part of the century-old tech ...

The new model is the strongest indication so far of IBM's enthusiasm for uniting the comparatively new operating system with the decades-old business computer line. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Big Blue on Monday will debut its newest model in the old-guard mainframe line, a less-expensive system that can run only newer software. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Meanwhile, over at the Mainframe Blog, Timothy Sipples makes his case: Industry old timers still tell stories of the IBM mainframe salesmen who could sell three systems by February and spend the next ...

IBM hopes that the z890, which can be purchased with a processing capacity as low as 26 MIPS (million instructions per second), will appeal to companies looking to consolidate a large number of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about finance and technology. IBM’s mainframe business is growing at a record pace, said Barry Baker, vice president, IBM ...

IBM today is marking the 40th anniversary of its first mainframe by introducing the zSeries 890 mainframe server for midsize enterprise customers. “We’re introducing a brand-new IBM eServer zSeries ...

The launch of the AI-focused z17 mainframe earlier this year has been a major success. Infrastructure is expected to drive 1.5 percentage points of revenue growth in 2025 for IBM. IBM boosted its ...