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 ...

A small Minneapolis mainframe computer software startup is poised to change the way enterprises use and share data across the cloud. VirtualZ Computing Inc. claims to be the first and only ...

John Markoff Steve Lohr of the New York Times has a good piece on an interesting product that you and I won’t be buying: IBM’s new mainframe computer, which Big Blue announced today. The story ...

Big Blue is set to announce upgrades to its mainframe computer, refreshing a high-end server line many had given up as extinct. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

There is an undeniable role for the mainframe computer in tomorrow’s large enterprise. Some businesses will opt to exit the platform, but those that retain it in a digital-first world must address ...

Around a third of modernisation projects that lift and shift mainframe workloads to a distributed architecture often fail, according to a regional executive at Rocket Software. In an interview with ...

Richard Plessala’s IT career was launched at Sirius, a CDW company, in 2003. There, he has spent 19 successful years providing IT solutions to clients through individual sales roles, specialist roles ...

The Institute for Employment Studies (IES) indicates that 600,000 fewer people are employed now than at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, while a further 400,000 have become economically inactive.

This light-sensing pointing device, called a "light gun," was used with the Whirlwind computer. It has an "L" shaped cylindrical body of aluminum with a gray hammertone finish. There is a micro switch ...

Over the decades there have been many denominations coined to classify computer systems, usually when they got used in different fields or technological improvements caused significant shifts. While ...