International Business Machines' mainframe computer, first introduced more than 50 years ago, remains an integral part of many companies' IT infrastructures. Visa, for example, uses IBM's mainframes ...

The mainframe, the hardware stalwart that has existed for decades, is continuing to be a force in the modern era. Among the vendors that still build mainframes is IBM, which today announced the latest ...

IBM said the two new machines, the iSeries for small businesses and the more powerful and costly zSeries, can replace racks of smaller server computers made by rivals like Dell Computer Corp. DELL.O ...

Still saving up for your own mainframe computer? IBM says it will offer Linux supporters the next best thing starting this week: free access to one of the computing giant's powerful mainframe sytems.

The IBM mainframe is the latest platform to gain a generative AI-based assistant to simplify automation and help customers with routine tasks. IBM rolled out its new watsonx Assistant for Z v1, which ...

Still saving up for your own mainframe computer? IBM says it will offer Linux supporters the next best thing starting this week: free access to one of the computing giant's powerful mainframe sytems.

IBM continued to reshape the mainframe with an eye toward further integrating it within hybrid clouds and securing Linux-based workloads. Both can fit in cloud data-center racks and can be outfitted ...

IBM and corporate software powerhouse SAP have made plans to bring SAP's software to Big Blue mainframes running Linux. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

IBM is expanding its “buy-as-you-need” utility approach to Linux on the mainframe. In an announcement today, IBM said it will offer customers capacity as needed by creating virtual Linux servers on ...

IBM is introducing new Linux-focused mainframe bundles that it says will provide discounts of up to 80 percent over previous offerings. IBM’s mainframe business has struggled in 2009, with ...

IBM has expanded its server lineup with a new mainframe system designed just for Linux that may be aimed, in particular, at higher-end x86 systems. The new system uses IBM’s specialty Linux processor ...

Haligan notifed me that, further adding to Linux's viability as an operating system in corporate environments, IBM has introduced a line of mainframe computers that exclusively run ...