This week marks the 50th anniversary of the technology that changed computing forever and remains at the heart of business, science, government and academia today: the mainframe computer. From ...

The challenges organizations face with legacy systems are not in fact a result of COBOL, or any other programming language; the language is just a syntax for expressing business rules. A programming ...

Executives across many sectors face the same challenge: how to modernise critical infrastructure when the mainframe systems at the heart of your enterprise are running decades-old software, tightly ...

Information is the lifeblood of any organization. The way they store, use and safeguard it keeps evolving. Yet even as organizations accelerate the migration of information to the cloud, another type ...

Mainframe systems are still essential for organisations in spite of the mainframe talent shortage created by the rise of cloud adoption. Around 90% of Fortune 500’s core systems are mainframes, but ...

ALTHOUGH cloud platforms and applications have become widely popular, many businesses still rely on mainframes to handle their most mission-critical tasks. According to IBM, over 70% of information ...

It’s an open secret that an organisation’s IT infrastructure can make or break critical business operations. This is especially true for mainframes, which continue to play a central role across ...

Proceed with caution: The question of whether it’s time to move away from mainframes is often answered with a ‘Yes, but...’ (iStock) LzLabs is a Business Reporter client. Albert Einstein once remarked ...

Not so fast. Mainframes have more staying power than most understand. Let’s look at the realities of mainframe technology and the people who operate it. One of the things that has often driven me nuts ...

The comedy blog Slackstory published "An Ode to Movie Mainframes" this week, chronicling Hollywood's age-old obsession with "hacking the mainframe." Movies most often use the phrase to mean that "the ...

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