The days when IBM 's mainframe computers held a monopoly on enterprise computing may have ended with the influx of cheaper x86 and Unix servers. But Big Blue is still reinventing its big iron. And now ...

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, ...

New AI toolkits, machine learning (ML) frameworks and AI-based private cloud tools are on their way to IBM Z-series mainframe users, as the company looks to preserve its share of the fast-growing AI ...

IBM's Poughkeepsie, New York, facility remains unharmed following a 4.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the East Coast of the US, reports NetworkWorld. One of the company's engineers, Pasquale Catalano ...

IBM has dominated the mainframe computer business since the category was created four decades ago. And it still gets about one-quarter of its $100 billion in annual revenue from sales, software, ...

IBMsold off large portions of its hardware business in 2014. The company no longer sells the Intel-based servers that dominate the data center, and it no longer manufactures its own processors.

IBM has created a module to handle Java for its mainframe computers and has come out with a budget system for midsize companies to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the mainframe. The zSeries ...

IBM is expanding support for Linux on mainframes with a few new initiatives announced today, including plans for an Ubuntu distribution. The announcement also includes a new Linux mainframe server ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- On the eve of a milestone, one of the world's premier high-tech machines is simultaneously new and old. It's 50 years old, if you track back to its ancestors. It's shiny-new and ...

The S/360, the computer that spawned IBM's mainframe line, turns 40 on Wednesday--but it's not wallowing in a midlife crisis. Although some pundits regularly declare the death of the mainframe, the ...

IBM spent $1 billion developing a new refrigerator-sized mainframe. It makes sense. For companies that require 100% uptime, public clouds simply aren't feasible. Earlier this month, IBM announced its ...