The venerable mainframe computer is experiencing a surprising but well-deserved resurgence, as the organizations that depend on these systems realize how important they are for digital initiatives and ...

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.

Most of these are pretty straightforward to figure out, but he ran into some troubles trying to understand the full adder board. The first issue is there is some uncertainty surrounding the logic ...

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 ...

A look at some of the reasons that mainframe computers are relied upon for critical parts of the healthcare industry. One of the best parts of my job is that I get to go to a number of enterprise ...

IBM Corp. recently introduced a new mainframe computer that boasts a 50 percent performance boost and dramatically lower energy costs than its predecessor. The new System z10, with a starting price at ...

My friend Wilfried in the Netherlands (he hates it if I say he's from Holland, in which case he once again explains the difference to me at great length) just pointed me toward an interesting blog on ...