Facing competition from distributed systems, the mainframe could eventually be eased out of corporate IT unless the costs of mainframe hardware and software become more competitive and more agile ...

IBM has found one way to sidestep the mainframe vs. distributed computing dilemma by simply calling its mainframes something else. Today, IBM refers to its larger processors as large servers and ...

The demise of the mainframe has been predicted since around 1981, but IBM is hoping to put an end to this discussion once and for all with the launch of zEnterprise mainframe server.

The question is no longer if we modernize, but how we navigate this complexity without disrupting the very core of operations ...

For 10 years, IT managers have heard the promises: cheap server farms will replace expensive mainframe systems, lowering costs and improving competitive advantage through modern applications. And ...

According to a recent market analysis published by Credence Research, the global Mainframe Modernization Services Market is ...

For example, if a company has a server farm of 200 distributed servers, it can be easily be consolidated into either one or two System boxes, hosting 60-70 Linux servers in a high-availability ...

Instead, CheckFree’s mainframe uses IBM’s ancient Systems Network Architecture (SNA) to connect to Unix-based RS/6000 servers, which then connect to the rest of the network via TCP/IP.

At Bank of New York, the mainframe is still king. Nearly three quarters of all transactions are processed on big iron, and 20 percent to 25 percent of the remaining transactions rely on the mainframe ...

Although personal computers and cloud-based distributed systems have taken some market share away from mainframes, this data for the most part remains difficult and expensive to access and manipulate.