Forty years after Big Blue introduced the S/360, the zaftig systems are still going strong and finding a way to fit into 21st-century computing. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, ...

Here's a blast from the past. Many folks in Rochester are familiar, some intimately, with IBM's System 360 mainframe. It was the precursor to the wildly popular Rochester creation - the AS/400. Here's ...

The space agency powers down its last System Z machine, years after IBM stopped selling them for the mathematical calculation jobs for which NASA originally bought them. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

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 ...

In April 1964, to meet the need of an emerging technology market for a uniform computer system, IBM introduced the revolutionary System/360 mainframe. The product of a $5 billion research and ...

IBM introduced a mainframe last week for midsize businesses. Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the IBM System/360 mainframe, the IBM eServer zSeries 890 is, according to IBM, inexpensive enough to ...

With the integrated storage offering and the new zAAP engine, IBM may have some success in bringing the mainframe to new markets, but ultimately the z890 will have the greatest appeal for IBM’s older ...

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 ...

IBM announced it has developed what it calls the world's fastest computer chip - a microprocessor for a new version of the IBM mainframe that begins shipping to customers on September 10th. Called the ...

MUNICH, Germany &#151 IBM Chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano personally has opened yesterday (June 20) the computer concern's first development laboratory in Russia. The move is part of IBM's strategy to ...