John Markoff Steve Lohr of the New York Times has a good piece on an interesting product that you and I won’t be buying: IBM’s new mainframe computer, which Big Blue announced today. The story ...

Mainframe computers are often seen as ancient machines—practically dinosaurs. But mainframes, which are purpose-built to process enormous amounts of data, are still extremely relevant today. If ...

Big Blue is set to announce upgrades to its mainframe computer, refreshing a high-end server line many had given up as extinct. The upgrades improve some of the features of the z900 mainframe, ...

Six decades ago -- April 7, 1964 -- IBM released its landmark System/360 family of mainframe computers. In what was described at the time as a “$5 billion gamble”, the “bet-the-business” strategy ...