Sixty years after the introduction of the first mainframe family, the IBM System/360, the monolithic computers remain in demand. As many as 89 percent of state CIOs reported relying on mainframes in ...

Creating a curriculum and materials to make the mainframe visible to students is the driver behind the textbook “Introduction to Enterprise Systems.” In this interview with authors Dr. Cameron Seay, ...

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.

In many ways, the modern computer era began in the New Englander Motor Hotel in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met in secret to figure out how to ...

In 1964 IBM began what many would consider the first true series of mainframes, the IBM 360. At the time IBM said its central processors included 19 combinations of graduated speed and memory capacity ...

Big Blue is betting that big iron for AI is a worthwhile investment for enterprise CIOs. With so much critical data still running through these legacy systems, IT leaders with hopes for AI might just ...

The new systems, IBM's first mainframes with a starting price of about $100,000, aim to replace hundreds of smaller servers in order to increase data center manageability and reduce power consumption, ...

The mainframe business is to I.B.M. what manufacturing is to the American economy, a shrinking but strategically vital part of the franchise. With the introduction of a new generation of mainframes on ...