What weighs 5 tons and has less computing power than your watch? A pioneering piece of computing history call "Flossie," the last operating ICT 1301 mainframe. The National Museum of Computing ...

The venerable mainframe computer is experiencing a surprising but well-deserved resurgence, as the organizations that depend on these systems realize how important they are for digital initiatives and ...

For nearly a decade, the Vermont Department of Labor sought to replace the rickety mainframe computer that has powered its unemployment insurance system since the 1980s. Under a federal program ...

— -- 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 ...

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 ...

The University of Colorado this summer will shut down for good its mainframe computer system — which has stashed data for the system for nearly 50 years and at one point was a behemoth machine that ...

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 ...

Thousands of people could be affected after a massive security breach at a local company.A routine check by the information technology department of Luxottica Retail, the former owner of the Things ...

Kyndryl’s latest State of mainframe modernisation report has found that organisations can achieve as much as a 225% return on investment in mainframe modernisation projects, yet many lack the ...

It's the end of another era at NASA, although this one was perhaps more inevitable than others. Chief Information Officer Linda Cureton announced in a blog post over the weekend that the agency's last ...

Riverside County, one of the largest counties in the country, recently replaced a half-century old mainframe computer system used to calculate property taxes. While the old system badly needed ...