Mainframes continue to excel at traditional tasks such as high-speed transaction processing and running large batch workloads. Mainframes also have the ability to easily handle large amounts of ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. With the rising popularity of cloud-based solutions over the last decade, a growing ...

Conniving naysayers have propagated the myth of the mainframe’s demise for decades, but a swift and momentous evolution of mainframe innovation and usage in recent years has debunked this propaganda ...

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 ...

IBM heeft zijn nieuwste mainframe voor enterprisetoepassingen aangekondigd, de z17. Het systeem, dat vanaf 8 juni beschikbaar komt, is volgens het bedrijf specifiek ontwikkeld voor grootschalige ...

IBM's latest mainframe is available with the option of a cut-down operating system that only runs newer software, and does not run traditional mainframe software such as CICS transaction processing.