Big Blue is set to announce upgrades to its mainframe computer, refreshing a high-end server line many had given up as extinct. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Big Blue's new z990 is the most significant machine so far in the company's effort to marry the largely unique capabilities of the mainframe computer to prevailing computing trends. Stephen Shankland ...

The new IBM zEnterprise 114 mainframe server follows the introduction of the zEnterprise System for the world's largest banks, insurance companies and governments in July 2010. The new server, which ...

IBM plans today to announce new server computers that behave more like mainframes and are priced as low as $1,500. The servers will be able to run as many as 10 operating systems on a single machine.

eSpeaks' Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

A couple of years after generative AI first entered mainstream consciousness, every industry segment is attempting to leverage it to improve efficiency and offer new products and services. While ...

Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM is pursuing a "Scale Out, Scale Up" strategy that features a combination of BladeCenter servers, z990 and grid technology to help customers increase efficiency and lower IT ...

Nisha Gopalan is a former Senior Overnight Assignment Editor for Investopedia News. She is an award-winning financial journalist who has worked in London, where she is currently based, and Hong Kong.

Over the decades there have been many denominations coined to classify computer systems, usually when they got used in different fields or technological improvements caused significant shifts. While ...

Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he’s likely to roll his eyes. Cloud is just a much-hyped new name for what mainframes have done for years, he’ll say. “A mainframe is a cloud,” ...

Christa Schidzik’s job as manager of systems administration at NEC Electronics’s chip design facility in Dusseldorf, Germany, is often more a resource management challenge than a technology challenge.