IBM continued to reshape the mainframe with an eye toward further integrating it within hybrid clouds and securing Linux-based workloads. Both can fit in cloud data-center racks and can be outfitted ...

IBM continues to adopt new tools and practices for its mainframe customers to keep the Big Iron relevant in a cloud world. First of all, the company switched-up its 20-year mainframe software pricing ...

Everything old is new again. In the 1960s, IBM's 650 mainframe operating system had two modes, MFT and MVT, in which process got its own address space and couldn't interface with others processes ...

NEW YORK — IBM ‘s zEnterprise system has an expansive yet still limited role. This “system of systems,” as the company calls it, is still operating in a mainframe-centric universe, although a larger ...

IBM announced that technology enabling IBM zEnterprise System users to integrate Microsoft Windows applications into the mainframe environment - an industry first - will become available on December ...

In a typical large enterprise, expanded use of the secure shell protocol to protect data-in-transit has resulted in the creation of tens of thousands of SSH authentication keys, each of which grants ...

Big Blue has released two new higher-end models of its z990 mainframe, along with a promotion to coax customers to try blade servers and other products. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

IBM on Wednesday is expected to announce a set of Rational software products for modernizing applications running on its flagship System Z mainframes. Rational, which IBM bought in 2003, has been best ...

The new capability allows clients with multi-tier applications — for example, Windows applications connected to mainframe data — to be integrated and consolidated on the same system. This first-ever ...