They’re the machines that won’t die. In the 1960s many airlines, banks, and governments began processing sensitive transactions using giant mainframe computers—and their descendants are still in use.

Today, with a quick screen tap on a personal handheld processor, people seeking a ride can open a cloud-based app and connect with drivers who can pinpoint an exact pick-up location via GPS, arrange a ...

The mainframe, whose demise has been regularly exaggerated during the past two decades, has gotten a shot of adrenaline from the reliability and uptime requirements of the e-business phenomenon.

Despite numerous predictions to the contrary over the past 10 years, mainframes are still a going concern. In fact, changes such as the Internet, e-business and Linux, which were meant to render ...

The CICS (Customer Information Control System) application server, which runs on the IBM mainframe, processes 1.1m transactions per second, significantly more than the number of Google searches. Yet ...

Listserv, the software used to run countless e-mail discussion groups on the Internet, once again is available for IBM mainframes by way of the Linux operating system, Listserv seller L-Soft said ...

The first mainframes were behemoth machines that could occupy entire city blocks. Since then, the mainframe has compacted and evolved into a cutting edge state—similar to other technologies modernized ...

Like it or not most mission critical processing still happens on a mainframe today. Mainframes literally run the business world. Unfortunately, most companies with systems older then ten years are ...

TOKYO--Escalating cost, inability to support business agility and the limited availability of modern software, are some of the key factors driving mainframe customers to migrate from the age-old ...