BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Astadia is pleased to announce the release of a new series of Mainframe-to-Cloud reference architecture guides. The documents cover how to refactor IBM mainframes applications ...

-zEnterprise is the most powerful, scalable mainframe server ever – up to 60% faster than System z10(3) for new workloads -Most energy efficient mainframe--more than 100,000 virtualized servers can be ...

Gene M. Amdahl, chief architect of IBM’s System/360 mainframe and later the creator of the IBM plug-compatible mainframe vendor that bore his name, has died aged 92. Amdahl was born in South Dakota, ...

When it comes to mainframe systems, the decision to remain competitive is easier said than done. For example, the proprietary nature of older Unisys and other mainframes is incompatible with current ...

MANHASSET, NY — IBM has announced what it labels as the most significant new mainframe systems architecture in the last 20 years. The zEnterprise mainframe design will allow workloads on mainframe, ...

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Part of IBM’s strategy is to leverage high-volume capabilities of its Power architecture in the gaming market to gain efficiencies in producing Power technologies in the mainframe space. (Part of the ...

Mainframe architecture has been the computing standard for decades, but is it approaching extinction? The data center mindset is migrating from traditional mainframe to the cloud, increasing ...

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 ...

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For decades, IBM mainframes were relatively wimpy processors with lots of I/O channels that could support dozens of disks, printers, terminals and comm links. The new Mac Pro is hardly wimpy, but its ...

Gene M. Amdahl, chief architect of IBM’s System/360 mainframe and later the creator of the IBM plug-compatible mainframe vendor that bore his name, has died aged 92. Amdahl was born in South Dakota, ...