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 ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Peer inside the operations of today’s world-class data centers and you’re likely to see a mix of distributed and mainframe systems. Mapping to business needs, “big iron” ...

Around a third of modernisation projects that lift and shift mainframe workloads to a distributed architecture often fail, according to a regional executive at Rocket Software. In an interview with ...

In many organizations, the management of distributed computing systems and mainframes has historically been a conversation roughly equivalent to the dialogue that exists between inhabitants of Venus ...

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

IBM last week announced a slew of upgrades to its Tivoli management software portfolio that the company says will help customers automate administrative tasks and view mainframe-specific statistics ...

Merrill Lynch stays on the bleeding edge of the financial services industry with multiple IT resources – one more critical resource being IBM mainframe systems. “The mainframe is not going away at ...

Cynics have been foretelling the imminent demise of the mainframe since the early 1990s, but all the evidence continues to point to the contrary. Today, 96% of the world’s banks and 71% of Fortune 500 ...

Several years have passed since the introduction of cloud computing. The most interesting thing is that security continues to be the top moderator of scaling cloud computing adoption. So it makes ...

‘Kyndryl continues to launch capabilities to help customers launch the right workloads on the right platforms, including their mainframe workloads. Customers have critical workloads on multiple ...

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Serena Software announced the availability of a new release of its dashboard, designed to provide improved visibility into end-to-end IT process performance and new accessibility on mobile devices.