The new president of IBM’s mainframe computer division said in an interview yesterday that the company was working to “reincarnate” its most powerful and expensive computers using the same low-cost ...

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 the ...

Madison Avenue's strategy for popularizing computers shifted from the 1950s through the 1980s. At first pitches focused on reliability and speed, but by the 1960s, advertising brochures put big ...

Known as drab-looking machines that sit in huge air-conditioned rooms, the IBM mainframe computer has been called the dinosaur of the technology world. About a decade ago, pundits predicted it would ...

The retro revolution continues: If bell-bottoms and the success of That ’70s Show weren’t enough to convince you, watch for the return of mainframe computers. Application service providers are a ...

ARMONK, N.Y. — IBM on Tuesday introduced a new line of mainframe computers the company calls its most powerful and technologically advanced ever. IBM said its zEnterprise EC12 mainframe server is ...

A look at some of the reasons that mainframe computers are relied upon for critical parts of the healthcare industry. One of the best parts of my job is that I get to go to a number of enterprise ...

ARMONK, N.Y. — IBM introduced a new line of mainframe computers today that the company calls its most powerful and technologically advanced ever. IBM said its zEnterprise EC12 mainframe server is ...

My friend Wilfried in the Netherlands (he hates it if I say he's from Holland, in which case he once again explains the difference to me at great length) just pointed me toward an interesting blog on ...

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 ...