Sixty years after the introduction of the first mainframe family, the IBM System/360, the monolithic computers remain in demand. As many as 89 percent of state CIOs reported relying on mainframes in ...

At Bank of New York, the mainframe is still king. Nearly three quarters of all transactions are processed on big iron, and 20% to 25% of the remaining transactions rely on the mainframe for at least ...

The CICS (Customer Information Control System) application server, which runs on the IBM mainframe, processes 1.1m transactions per second, significantly more than the number of Google searches. Yet ...

Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of that mainstay of computing, the mainframe. Back in 1964, IBM rolled out the System/360 — the first computer that was compatible and upgradable. In other ...

In 1964 IBM began what many would consider the first true series of mainframes, the IBM 360. At the time IBM said its central processors included 19 combinations of graduated speed and memory capacity ...