IBM today is marking the 40th anniversary of its first mainframe by introducing the zSeries 890 mainframe server for midsize enterprise customers. “We’re introducing a brand-new IBM eServer zSeries ...

Recent networking enhancements—including 100G Ethernet and integrated RoCE/RDMA networking—continue to advance IBM’s goal of delivering higher bandwidth, lower latency, greater simplification, and ...

Big Blue is set to announce upgrades to its mainframe computer, refreshing a high-end server line many had given up as extinct. The upgrades improve some of the features of the z900 mainframe, ...

There’s a new leader in the race for the longest product name of the year: Toronto’s Blockade Systems, which late last month at Microsoft’s Tech Ed conference released ManageID Enterprise Suite for ...

I look back at my mainframe days very fondly. Hired to be a GIS code monkey on VM/SP, I would up also managing our machine, applying PUTs and even performing the upgade from VM/SP 5 to VM/SP 6--heady ...

The Armonk, N.Y.-based computing giant has kicked off a project to dramatically change the underlying architecture of its zSeries mainframes so the machines will use the same Power processors and ...

IBM is expected later this month to announce its next-generation System z mainframe, its first update since the release of the z9 three years ago. It is promising improved energy efficiency, security ...

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 ...

Pete challenge the concept of mainframes with this. So start a thread on it! Its telling that you never have and where you have done in reply to others there is little technical fact just belittlement ...

IBM has found one way to sidestep the mainframe vs. distributed computing dilemma by simply calling its mainframes something else. Today, IBM refers to its larger processors as large servers and ...

HP on Monday is releasing the first blade server version of its NonStop computer, a highly fault-tolerant system designed to compete with IBM’s mainframe. HP is also trying to steal some thunder from ...