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 ...

While International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) now derives most of its revenue from software and consulting, the decades-old mainframe business is still an important part of the century-old tech ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mainframe workload modernization startup Mechanical Orchard Inc. said it’s hoping to gain more enterprise traction today after closing on a $24 million early-stage funding round led by Emergence ...

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 ...

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 ...