A Platform In Its Prime
Published on April 1, 2025
via Planet Mainframe (by Derek Britton) IBM Mainframe continues to defy naysayers by attracting new workload and offering peerless reliability. This year sees its latest incarnation unveiled. What sort of market does it face? Since Fujitsu announced its exit, the last remaining mainframe computer on…
6 lessons to learn from the 60-year history of the modern mainframe
Published on May 17, 2024
via CIO As we celebrate the mainframe’s rich history, there’s a lot we can still learn from this technological marvel. Here are six lessons the modern mainframe has taught us over its last 60 years. CREDIT: ISTOCK/MIKHAIL KONOPLEV The mainframe has long stood as a…
Common Myths Around Mainframe Modernization—and How To Overcome Them
Published on March 13, 2024
via Planet Mainframe The first mainframe computer was invented almost one hundred years ago, in the late 1930s, when a Harvard University researcher needed help solving a series of equations. Since then, mainframes have consistently been an undeniable resource to organizations and enterprises across the…
