Quick question: What is more than 60 years old, but still spry enough to beat the best mid-range clusters at big data? If your answer was the mainframe, then you're correct.

In this explainer, we’ll look at the IBM mainframe computer—what it is, how it works, and why it’s still going strong after over 50 years. Setting the stage ...

In our increasingly technologically-focused world, industry relies on mainframe computers for their speed, reliability, scalability and unmatched security. Mainframe experts earn starting salaries ...

The mainframe computer is here to stay, according to analysts working closely with IBM. That’s despite a preponderance of cloud initiatives seen recently by the consultancy firm — the primary ...

To the less technologically inclined, IBM’s new crop of mainframe computers introduced last week (pictured below) look like a large stylish refrigerator rather than a piece of tech wizardry. Yet ...

A mainframe is just a big computer, as defined by David Stephen s, author of What On Earth Is A Mainframe?, but more specifically the IBM zSeries computers. Simple as that. Mainframes date back to ...

The tiny little power-packed tube is engineered like a 1960s mainframe computer: a central processor with a lot of I/O. That makes the economic case for it very different than for other PCs.

But nearly 50 years after these once-giant computers were first introduced, companies like Detroit-based Compuware and IBM are preparing for a shortage of mainframe workers.

Question: What is going on with the plus-up? I thought we would be getting it by now. It was approved around Christmas! Answer: Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), popularly known ...