As data centers grow and their power bills approach the market value of the hardware and software platforms that are employed within, several companies including IBM are aiming to trim down their ...

Something is rotten in the state of software application development. Okay perhaps not so much rotten, but there are a number of issues certainly fermenting with some pungency. As the so-called ...

A new zSeries module serves as a dedicated processor for Java applications and debuts in time for the 40th anniversary of the mainframe. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he ...

A study conducted in London by Dynamic Markets found that the use of mainframe applications is lengthening call times and leading to poor customer service in many call centers. As if that's not enough ...

Broome County, N.Y., CIO Kim McKinney was named New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year this week at the annual GTC East conference in Albany. Over the past 12 years, McKinney has taken county ...

Remember the mainframe “green screen” 3270 terminals used by so many companies? Well, they haven’t gone away. Tim Grieser, program vice president at IDC, is of the opinion that the number of currently ...

"Mainframe" and "Web 2.0" aren't used together very often. Serena Software, Redwood City, Calif., hopes to change that with the release of its Serena Application Release Manager (ARM), a mashup aimed ...

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 ...