This is the last newsletter in a series that has explored our premise that we are returning to a new era of mainframe computing. This newsletter will describe what is meant by a mainframe, provide ...

Edge computing looks set to provide mainframe computing with an escape route from being trapped forever in the silo marked `back office’.

Benchmark testing by Heirloom Computing revealed that the company’s ELPaaS cloud platform for legacy applications is much faster than mainframe comput ...

Mainframe computing began revolutionizing the way work was done and how information was stored. Little by little, computers were taking on tasks that had always required human labor. Though the ...

More evidence of the alignment between mainframes, mainframe automation and management, and cloud computing comes with today's announcement that CA has purchased key assets of Cassatt Corp., maker ...

Why is defending the mainframe so difficult? One reason is that many people do not fully understand what is meant by the term 'mainframe.' Ubiquitous computing leads many to believe that the mainframe ...

Prime candidates for mainframe purchases are customers running servers from Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, Stallings said. Those competitors have their own counterpoint prepared, though.

Ironically, as the mainframe meets cloud computing, many of these so-called “experts” will move on to the after-life far before the 360 architecture does.

The computing community lost a pioneer this week as Gene Amdahl, known for his groundbreaking work in the early days of computing, lost a battle with pneumonia ...