Creating a curriculum and materials to make the mainframe visible to students is the driver behind the textbook “Introduction to Enterprise Systems.” In this interview with authors Dr. Cameron Seay, ...

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Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he’s likely to roll his eyes. Cloud is just a much-hyped new name for what mainframes have done for years, he’ll say. “A mainframe is a cloud,” ...

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 ...

The mainframe-Linux alliance turns 20 this month and is proving to be more vital than ever, primarily in the form of Big Iron-based Red Hat OpenShift. The mainframe has been declared “dead,” “morphed” ...

It’s past time to retire the myth that mainframes, those impenetrable-looking boxes understood by only a few IT magicians, still store 80 percent of all corporate data. Since their introduction in the ...