IBM launched the latest version of its dominant mainframe platform — the z17 — at its virtual IBM Z Day event this week. The z17, which features comprehensive AI integration, is designed to bring AI ...

Forty years after Big Blue introduced the S/360, the zaftig systems are still going strong and finding a way to fit into 21st-century computing. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, ...

IBM is releasing the latest version of its mainframe hardware that includes new updates meant to accelerate AI adoption. The hardware and consulting company on Monday announced IBM z17, the latest ...

A new zSeries module serves as a dedicated processor for Java applications and debuts in time for the 40th anniversary of the mainframe. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he ...

For the past several years, IBM has transferred the technology inside its mainframes to beef up its other server lines. Now the process is going the other way. The Armonk, N.Y.-based computing giant ...

IBM Corp. is looking to make mainframes a better fit for the modern data center — literally. The company late Monday unveiled two miniaturized mainframe models it said are easier to deploy in a public ...

IBM mainframes are known for very unusual terminals. But IBM made many different things, including the IBM 3151 ASCII terminal, which uses a cartridge to emulate a VT220 terminal. [Norbert Keher] has ...

IBM has signed an OEM agreement with Cockroach Labs – maker of the distributed PostgreSQL-like cloud RDBMS CockroachDB – in a bid to help modernize mission-critical applications reliant on mainframe ...

The S/360, the computer that spawned IBM's mainframe line, turns 40 on Wednesday--but it's not wallowing in a midlife crisis. Although some pundits regularly declare the death of the mainframe, the ...