mainframes
“How the Heck did We Get Here?” Governor in Plea for COBOL Programmers
Trademark COBOL programmer smugness is once again in fashion (was it ever out?), after the governor of New Jersey made…
BMC is Gobbling Up Compuware in a Major Mainframe Shakeup
US enterprise software company BMC has agreed to buy its third mainframe specialist in just over a year, closing a…
OpenShift is Now Generally Available on IBM Z. That’s Kind of a Big Deal…
Containers and mainframes are like chalk and cheese: the former, a way of letting code and all its dependencies run…
Intel Throws Its Weight Behind Israeli Mainframe-to-Cloud Backups Minnow
Intel has thrown its backing behind Israeli mainframe-to-cloud storage startup Model9, with the chip giant's corporate venture capital arm leading…
COBOL Code Bases Metastatise as Enterprises Tinker with Tier 1 Applications
COBOL, the programming language widely used to run Tier 1/mission-critical applications on mainframe computers – and popularly thought of in…
MIPS Go Mad: IBM Hits “Historical” Mainframe Highs
Cloud and mainframes: they may seem like an unlikely combination, but they look like the twin pillars of IBM’s future,…
IBM’s CTO, Cloud Platform Services, on “Cloud Paks”, Containers, Paas-Bashing and Mainframes
Dr Bala Rajaraman is an IBM fellow “on the engineering side of things” as he puts it, who has worked…
UK’s “Advanced” Buys Dallas’ Modern Systems, Adds Mainframe Expertise, US Footprint
Advanced, one of the UK's fastest growing software companies, has agreed to buy legacy modernisation specialist Modern Systems for an…
Are Delays to Mainframe Modernisation Restricting Innovation?
Over the last 30 years, computing technology has evolved dramatically, and this change is accelerating. Today we see ubiquitous x86…
The Tech Industry Needs You! (On a Mainframe)
Here’s a fun fact for millennials and Generation Z. Every time you buy a Pumpkin Spice Latte or a pot…