Remember when you got your driver’s license? That was a pretty big day. Now imagine that as the person at the DMV handed you your card, he or she also slipped you permits to operate a boat, drive a ...

Not so fast. Mainframes have more staying power than most understand. Let’s look at the realities of mainframe technology and the people who operate it. One of the things that has often driven me nuts ...

You don't have to know COBOL to work in big iron. APIs open up mainframing to anyone with coding skills. A few weeks ago I found myself in a meeting with the technical team at a major investment ...

As virtualization makes its way deeper and deeper into the data center, organizations are starting to leverage virtualization not only for the flexibility, efficiency, and reduced cost of ownership it ...

More than half of all organisations using mainframes are now open to the idea of managing them from a mobile phone. This is big iron 2.0, and there are signs that the mainframe may be in for a minor ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

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 ...