Mainframes

Thu, December 01, 2011 - As students study other technologies, vendors try to develop new talent and offer tools to fill the gap for these critical systems

Mon, November 21, 2011 - IBM said its mainframes will soon be able to manage Windows applications, bridging one of the last major divides in data centers.

Mon, November 07, 2011 - IBM mainframes are on the verge of managing Windows applications, crossing one of the last big system divides in data centers.

Tue, September 06, 2011 - Fujian province is using a mainframe as an integration point for several cloud services, IBM said

Fri, August 19, 2011 - A second opinion from IBM on the question of whether the PC is dead.

Mon, July 18, 2011 - Software and services fueled IBM growth in the second quarter of 2011, the company said Monday.

Mon, July 18, 2011 - 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.

Tue, July 12, 2011 - IBM is today announcing the latest successor to what it has called its "business-class" system, the zEnterprise 114, with a starting price of $75,000 -- 25% lower than the previous system in this category.

Sun, June 26, 2011 - CA Technologies has added fresh user interfaces to its stack of mainframe management tools

Fri, June 17, 2011 - BMC Software said Friday it has acquired a range of IMS (information management system) database software and related customers from Neon Enterprise Software, which recently lost a legal battle with IBM over a mainframe-related product called zPrime. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Wed, April 20, 2011 - IBM will support servers running Microsoft Windows on one of its mainframe platforms by the end of this year.

Fri, April 08, 2011 - BMC's new tools for IBM's DB2 version 10 take advantage of the System z zIIP co-processor

Wed, March 30, 2011 - Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he's likely to roll his eyes. Cloud is just a new name -- and a lot of hype -- for what mainframes have done for years, he'll say.

Wed, November 10, 2010 - Major market shifts in the database world don't happen often. When they do, they're massive, creating an impact that can last 10 to 20 years. When I entered the job market, it was right at the tail end of the last major shift from the mainframe to client/server.