The mainframe computer has been around for over half a century, and it seems like people have been predicting its demise for almost as long. But the only thing going away is the workforce that ...

After reading my article Making Mainframes More Efficient, Heirloom Computing CEO Gary Cook invited me to learn more about his company and what it does for enterprises wishing to migrate some of their ...

A short while ago, I wrote an article discussing a recent BMC-sponsored study that focused upon mainframe use within enterprises. This study came to the conclusion that mainframe use is likely to ...

Sabre Holdings Corp., the air-travel software company, has an ambitious set of objectives for the remake of its “shopping engine,” a 25-year-old mainframe application with 10 million lines of ...

Kristine Harper was a high school senior when she took her first mainframe class. Six years later she’s a professional mainframe programmer and platform evangelist to young people beginning their IT ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Software engineering and development leader GFT and Astadia, market leader for mainframe modernization software, have partnered to support organizations with legacy technology ...

The CICS (Customer Information Control System) application server, which runs on the IBM mainframe, processes 1.1m transactions per second, significantly more than the number of Google searches. Yet ...

Art Louise is like many mainframe professionals. He has three decades of experience with systems and programming languages such as Cobol and assembler that remain critical in data centers but aren’t ...

The federal student loan service center Campus Partners, an offshoot of Sallie Mae, wanted to revamp its mainframe systems to make loan data accessible to customers via the Web. With millions of lines ...

Some twenty-five hundred to three thousand years ago, a young man named David slew a giant called Goliath. For that he was made king. When it comes to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (DRBC), ...

It’s no coincidence that the ‘center of gravity’ for my Digital Influencer article series is the recently published The DevOps Handbook, as DevOps is a core enabler of digital transformation. Even ...