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IBM says customers spooked by soaring demand for AI infrastructure raided their mainframe budgets to stockpile servers, storage, and memory instead, knocking Big Blue's flagship Z business off course.

The mainframe has been written off more than once, yet it remains stubbornly central to how the world’s largest organisations run. On IBM’s own reckoning, it sits behind 87% of all transactions ...

For years, rip and replace has dominated conversations about the mainframe. A smarter, more pragmatic reality is now taking hold. Mainframe systems can process millions of transactions in seconds, ...

The global banking sector is experiencing the most significant technological shift since the introduction of the mainframe. Generative AI has moved from experimentation to board‑level priority in less ...

COBOL — short for common business-oriented language — isn’t going anywhere. Released in 1960 and standardized in 1968, COBOL was developed by the Conference on Data Systems Languages to handle ...

The mainframe, long the backbone of enterprise computing, is enjoying a surge of support as modernization projects bear fruit, according to BMC Software Inc.’s 20th annual mainframe survey. It found ...

Mainframe workforce demographics are shifting as veteran engineers retire and younger technologists join the ranks, according to BMC. The IT service management provider surveyed 1,000 mainframe ...

The group founded by Charlie Kirk is a right-wing political organization that focuses on motivating young people. By Emma Goldberg Follow our latest updates on the shooting of Charlie Kirk. Turning ...

Legacy systems weren’t built for today’s demands, but banks don’t have the luxury of rip and replace. Learn how one bank solved this challenge with Ververica. Financial institutions face continuously ...

Mainframes were the punchline of jokes in the early days of cloud computing, but their steady dependability is still critical to IT architectures. A certain Fortune 500 financial institution decided ...