This could help the hardware vendor better compete against hyperscale public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The z15 platform taps into IBM's broader pervasive encryption ...

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 ...

IBM has unveiled what appears to be the first generative-AI-based solution for COBOL-to-Java translation. The newly announced Watsonx Code Assistant for Z is designed to speed up the translation of ...

After more than five years of uninterrupted business contraction, IBM on Thursday reported a quarter of growth spurred by its cloud portfolio and new mainframes and processors. Jim Kavanaugh, a ...

The digital transformation train may have already left the station, but for companies with legacy mainframe applications, it’s not always clear how to get on board. On Wednesday, IBM announced an ...

While IBM has continued to evolve the mainframe to stay relevant in an AI and cloud computing world, IT organizations have continued to struggle with a shrinking pool of skilled workers who know how ...

Big Blue's new z990 is the most significant machine so far in the company's effort to marry the largely unique capabilities of the mainframe computer to prevailing computing trends. Stephen Shankland ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about finance and technology. IBM’s mainframe business is growing at a record pace, said Barry Baker, vice president, IBM ...

IBM announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire application modernization capabilities from Advanced, bringing a combination of talent, tools, and knowledge to enhance IBM ...

Singapore’s DBS Bank has signed a seven-year deal with IBM to deploy the z15 mainframe as part of its mainframe modernisation efforts. The z15, which has a smaller, more energy efficient footprint, ...

Swiss telecoms giant and IT services provider Swisscom is to start migrating a suite of billing applications from its IBM mainframe to a software-defined mainframe platform running on x86 Linux. Due ...