Conniving naysayers have propagated the myth of the mainframe’s demise for decades, but a swift and momentous evolution of mainframe innovation and usage in recent years has debunked this propaganda ...

Here's something you don't see every day. Two reputable and veteran IT research outfits --- Giga and META --- taking diametrically opposite positions on an issue. The META Group has released a ...

Thousands of enterprises use mainframes as their system of record. In fact, getting the most out of the mainframe is a key competitive advantage — so much so that it’s helped to shift popular opinion ...

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The mainframe is finding its way into emerging markets and is still holding strong globally, according to an IBM executive. Richard Pape, mainframe systems executive at IBM Asia-Pacific, told ZDNet ...

The mainframe computer is here to stay, according to analysts working closely with IBM. That’s despite a preponderance of cloud initiatives seen recently by the consultancy firm — the primary reason ...

Some people believe the mainframe is obsolete – an ancient relic of 1960s computing.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 ...

Periodically the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the US Secret Service issues what it calls Privacy Impact Statements on systems that collect ...

One lesson we should take away from the ” death of the mainframe” talk is that we often get so excited about what’s new and shiny that we forget the ecosystem and experience that surrounds what that ...