We’d had a Unisys mainframe here since the late ’70s or early ’80s, and we were at the end of our current five-year licensing contract. We either had to purchase a new mainframe or go to a new ...

Meanwhile, over at the Mainframe Blog, Timothy Sipples makes his case: Industry old timers still tell stories of the IBM mainframe salesmen who could sell three systems by February and spend the next ...

The bleeding edge? The industrial-strength mainframe computer, developed decades ago for heavy-duty data processing, continues proving its staying power even as next-generation artificial intelligence ...

Kristine Harper was a high school senior when she took her first mainframe class. Six years later she’s a professional mainframe programmer and platform evangelist to young people beginning their IT ...

I look back at my mainframe days very fondly. Hired to be a GIS code monkey on VM/SP, I would up also managing our machine, applying PUTs and even performing the upgade from VM/SP 5 to VM/SP 6--heady ...

Experts are predicting a mainframe skills shortage in five years’ time as aging IT professionals begin retiring in large numbers. However, while speakers at the American Federation of Computer ...

An in-depth look at the latest trends and technologies in enterprise networking. Just got back from a Commvault event in London (where I saw more people in 10 seconds than I do in a month in Devon!) ...