The way we interact with computers hasn’t fundamentally changed in decades, even as software has grown increasingly powerful and complex. In today’s work environment, professionals spend countless ...

A couple of years after generative AI first entered mainstream consciousness, every industry segment is attempting to leverage it to improve efficiency and offer new products and services. While ...

There is an undeniable role for the mainframe computer in tomorrow’s large enterprise. Some businesses will opt to exit the platform, but those that retain it in a digital-first world must address ...

More than two-thirds of enterprise efforts to transform legacy implementations with AI will fail, leading to disruptions and ...

The mainframe, long the backbone of enterprise computing, is enjoying a surge of support as modernization projects bear fruit, according to BMC Software Inc.’s 20th annual mainframe survey. It found ...

Mainframe architecture has been the computing standard for decades, but is it approaching extinction? The data center mindset is migrating from traditional mainframe to the cloud, increasing ...

I look back at my mainframe days very fondly. Hired to be a GIS code monkey on VM/SP, I would up also managing our machine, applying PUTs and even performing the upgade from VM/SP 5 to VM/SP 6--heady ...

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Ninety-two of the world's top 100 banks, 23 of the world's 25 largest airlines, more than 70% of the biggest retailers, and all top 10 insurers still rely on mainframes. With apologies to Mark Twain, ...

My guess is mainframe applications will have to undergo a substantial amount of change because they were built essentially as single-threaded software. The mainframe will be hit by this, a lot of the ...