Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he's likely to roll his eyes. Cloud is just a new name -- and a lot of hype -- for what mainframes have done for years, he'll say. "A mainframe ...

Google Cloud has extended its mainframe migration services to include a new option that enables parallel processing – customers can simultaneously run their mainframe workloads on prem and in the ...

The drive to combine the mainframe computer and the cloud – at first sight perhaps seen as an attempt to join chalk with cheese’ – continues to gather pace, and is attracting new players that are ...

Google Cloud has partnered with database and mainframe modernization software provider mLogica to help enterprises modernize their mainframe applications. The partnership will see Google Cloud combine ...

IBM is releasing the latest version of its zEnterprise mainframe, the zEC12 enterprise system, with an eye toward cloud users. The new mainframe includes large-scale cloud capabilities, as well as ...

Mainframes stand as a telling case in the story of survivor technologies. While it may lose ground to insurgent options, Big Iron is still alive and well as major financial institutions remain loyal ...

Breakthroughs bring new levels of scalability and data access for legacy applications, though U.S. enterprise adoption is still slow, ISG Provider Lens™ report says The 2022 ISG Provider Lens™ ...

Mainframes were the punchline of jokes in the early days of cloud computing, but their steady dependability is still critical to IT architectures. A certain Fortune 500 financial institution decided ...

Covid proved to be just what banks needed to begin moving off their mainframe systems (at last) and shift their core banking technology to the cloud, says a new report from Accenture. “It was like a ...

IBM is launching what it calls a “skinny mainframe” for cloud computing. The system is built around IBM z14 mainframe technology, and it features a 19-inch industry standard, single-frame case design, ...