SAN FRANCISCO - IBM Corp. rolls out a new mainframe computer today boasting a 50 percent performance boost and dramatically lower energy costs than its predecessor. The new System z10, with a starting ...

NEW YORK — IBM is calling its new System z10 mainframe a “commercial supercomputer” and hoping that the machine can capture some geek mind share via features such as a quad-core processor that runs at ...

The mainframe, the aged yet surprisingly resilient survivor of computing, is getting a face-lift. A model called the IBM z10, which is being introduced Tuesday, is far faster and has three times the ...

The System z10 Business Class mainframe lets IBM compete more aggressively against various RISC and Itanium-based servers and high-end x86 and x64 systems IBM is targeting midsize business customers ...

IBM rolls out a new mainframe computer today boasting a 50 percent performance boost and dramatically lower energy costs than its predecessor. The new System z10, with a starting price at about $1 ...

IBM has found one way to sidestep the mainframe vs. distributed computing dilemma by simply calling its mainframes something else. Today, IBM refers to its larger processors as large servers and ...

IBM technician Len Centonze assembles a "multi-chip module" at the company’s Poughkeepsie, N.Y., plant. The module is the processing engine at the heart of the company’s new z10 mainframe computer.

IBM introduces the System/360 as a new generation of electronic computing equipment. It’s named after the degrees in a circle, since it was meant to encompass every need of every user. IBM computers ...

In 1991, Stewart Alsop, the editor of InfoWorld and a thoughtful observer of industry trends, predicted that the last mainframe computer would be unplugged by 1996. In February 2008, IBM introduced ...

SAN FRANCISCO - IBM Corp. rolls out a new mainframe computer Tuesday boasting a 50 percent performance boost and dramatically lower energy costs than its predecessor. The new System z10, with a ...