— -- 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," as ...

(AP) ARMONK, N.Y. - IBM on Tuesday introduced a new line of mainframe computers the company calls its most powerful and technologically advanced ever. IBM said its zEnterprise EC12 mainframe server is ...

This skills issue is just the latest idea peddled by those who claim that the mainframe is a shrinking dinosaur. As people in the industry know, however, mainframe use is continuing to grow in a ...

Big Blue is set to announce upgrades to its mainframe computer, refreshing a high-end server line many had given up as extinct. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

The era of mainframe computers and directly programming machines with switches is long past, but plenty of us look back on that era with a certain nostalgia. Getting that close to the hardware and ...

They’re the machines that won’t die. In the 1960s many airlines, banks, and governments began processing sensitive transactions using giant mainframe computers—and their descendants are still in use.

Large-scale companies usually use mainframe computers for centralized management and to reduce the costs of IT resources. While smaller businesses do not have access to the same level of hardware and ...

A look at some of the reasons that mainframe computers are relied upon for critical parts of the healthcare industry. One of the best parts of my job is that I get to go to a number of enterprise ...