The era of mainframe computers and directly programming machines with switches is long past, but plenty of us look back on that era with a certain nostalgia. Getting that close to the hardware and ...

For decades, technology has provided our world with great innovation. Whilst rapid change in our industry is nothing new, we are currently witnessing an unprecedented phenomenon as four technologies – ...

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 ...

Geniez AI, a startup developing technology to integrate artificial intelligence with legacy mainframe systems, said it raised $6 million in seed funding co-led by StageOne Ventures and Canapi Ventures ...

There are few advantages to growing old, but if you were lucky enough to train, back in the hidden midst of times past, in programming languages COBOL or PL/I, you may have landed in later life into a ...

As we celebrate the mainframe’s rich history, there’s a lot we can still learn from this technological marvel. Here are six lessons the modern mainframe has taught us over its last 60 years. The ...

Fifty years ago today IBM unveiled the first mainframe computer, capable of powering everything from banks to governments. It was so expensive to design that failure would have destroyed the company.

Was there ever a market for just five computers, and is there now? According to a quote attributed to the then CEO of IBM, Thomas J Watson Jr, in 1943 he believed that ‘…there is a world market for ...

The IBM mainframe is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The first System 360 mainframe was unveiled on 7 April 1964 and its arrival marked a break with all general purpose computers that came before.