When the first global distribution systems (GDS), such as American Airlines Inc.’s Sabre, came on the scene, they pioneered the use of computers in large-scale commercial applications and the ...

In his role as Senior Business Development Strategist and Senior Public Safety Strategist at CDW•G, Matt Parnofiello manages technology integration projects with public safety agencies from concept to ...

Only half a dozen years ago, the computing world was abuzz over the seemingly limitless possibilities of the PC client/server networks that were popping up everywhere. As a result, computer-industry ...

Allan Sulkin sent along this link to a NYT article on "survivor technologies," the chief case in point being the mainframe. It's become a stock comparison, at VoiceCon, to liken the PBX to the ...

In the financial services industry, where IT systems are high-volume and mission-critical, news of Big Iron’s ‘big crisis’ is greatly exaggerated, at least for now. It’s true that in today’s digital ...

With the rising popularity of cloud-based solutions over the last decade, a growing misconception in the professional world is that mainframe technology is becoming obsolete. This couldn’t be further ...

Mainframes were the punchline of jokes in the early days of cloud computing, but their steady dependability is still critical to IT architectures. A certain Fortune 500 financial institution decided ...

Compuware Corporation, an infrastructure performance provider, announced the results of a global CIO survey on the impact of new technologies and trends on the mainframe application environment. The ...

Not so fast. Mainframes have more staying power than most understand. Let’s look at the realities of mainframe technology and the people who operate it. One of the things that has often driven me nuts ...

In the Pennsylvania state government, the mainframe still plays a crucial role delivering applications to users and handling the government’s business. “We have some applications that are huge [and ...

Far from a throwback to another era, mainframe technology is giving the financial sector the tools to win in the digital age. In association withIBM When it comes to supporting DevOps initiatives, ...

MUNICH, Germany &#151 IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano personally has opened yesterday (June 20) the computer concern's first development laboratory in Russia. The move is part of IBM's strategy to ...