In this week’s Computerworld feature, Rebuilding the Legacy, I spoke with mainframe hardware and software vendors about the future of legacy code. Guru Rao, IBM fellow and chief engineer for eServer, ...

Mainframe computing is having a moment — again. Nearly 60 years after the first IBM System/360 debuted as a mainframe platform, it continues to evolve in ways that defy expectations, powering critical ...

Their overall goal is to combine IBM’s experience in systems reliability, security and scalability that it offers on Z-series mainframe systems with Arm’s expertise in power-efficient architectures ...

IBM has announced the System z Solution Edition Series, including seven packages of integrated hardware, software and services designed to help customers deploy new enterprise workloads. IBM also ...

IBM marked the 50 th anniversary of the mainframe today. Currently, more than 70% of enterprise data resides on a mainframe and 71% of all Fortune 500 companies have their core businesses on a ...

IBM Corp. is using its annual TechXchange conference in Orlando this week to announce a slate of software and infrastructure updates aimed at helping enterprises put artificial intelligence into ...

IBM is releasing the latest version of its mainframe hardware that includes new updates meant to accelerate AI adoption. The hardware and consulting company on Monday announced IBM z17, the latest ...

IBM and Arm are teaming up to develop new dual-architecture hardware for next-generation AI and data intensive workloads, the companies jointly announced.

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 ...

After using performance management software to improve batch-processing times for accounting and other functions, the WakeMed Health Network last week said it will be able to upgrade to a new ...

It's been more than 50 years since International Business Machines (IBM 1.76%) launched its first mainframe computer. The world has changed drastically since then, with the personal computer, the ...

Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. David Reeg, chief architect for Minnesota IT ...