To the less technologically inclined, IBM’s new crop of mainframe computers introduced last week (pictured below) look like a large stylish refrigerator rather than a piece of tech wizardry. Yet ...

A small Minneapolis mainframe computer software startup is poised to change the way enterprises use and share data across the cloud. VirtualZ Computing Inc. claims to be the first and only woman ...

The new line of mainframe computers pairs what IBM claimed is the industry’s fastest processor with additional resources in a package designed to handle large-scale, continuing tasks such as ...

Mainframe computers have handled our most precious data since the 1960s, but they’re being put online without adequate security.

— -- They are the dinosaurs of the computer industry. But anyone who thinks mainframe computers are going the way of typewriters and videocassette recorders is in for a surprise. "Big Iron ...

In the meantime, it is the proprietary mainframe computers that are running most of the systems we use in our everyday lives - banks, government departments, supermarkets and telcos.

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 ...

When Betelgeuse, the University of Manitoba’s 47-year-old mainframe computer, breathed its last recently, the computer science department turned out in full to pay their last respects. There’s ...

Nicolas Temese's miniature model of the IBM 1401 computer system. The real version was created in 1959 and rented for $2,500 a month (£2,032, AU$3,641). Nicolas Temese ...

A backlog of legacy software apps has state government agencies tied to costly mainframe computers, amid growing pressure to shut them down, the National Association of State Technology Directors ...

A pioneering piece of computing history called "Flossie," the last operating ICT 1301 mainframe, is set for a new lease on life after recently being delivered to the National Museum of Computing ...

While job seekers are interested in the language — largely used for programming massive mainframe computers — the share of job postings per million that mention the term "COBOL" has only ...