"Mainframes" news, interviews, and features

News about Mainframes

• IBM partners to make mainframes more mainstream

  The company is working with Suse and Canonical to expand its offerings

• IBM's new mainframe will eat mobile apps for lunch

  Big Blue claims the system can crunch 2.3 billion transactions per day

• Compuware preps the mainframe for younger IT pros

  Compuware's Topaz platform will provide graphical interfaces for mainframe management

• Compuware returns to its mainframe roots

  Compuware has spun off its performance management division, which now operates as Dynatrace

• Fifty years on, mainframer remembers 'a fantastic time to be an engineer'

  The IBM System/360 revolutionized business computing with the first set of compatible, scalable systems

• The mainframe turns 50

  In 1964, mainframes weren't new, but the System/360 revolutionised the computer industry and its launch was the dawn of enterprise IT