Nearly two years after IBM announced a new pricing model aimed at making mainframe hardware upgrades cheaper (see story), the company is urging users to be careful about how and where they apply it.

Mainframes and AI? Isn't that something like a Model-T Ford with a Tesla motor? Actually, no. Mainframes are as relevant in 2022 as they were in the 1960s. IBM's new IBM z16, with its integrated ...

Big Blue on Monday will debut its newest model in the old-guard mainframe line, a less-expensive system that can run only newer software. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

As it previewed in March, IBM is set to deliver an AI-infused, hybrid-cloud oriented version of its z/OS mainframe operating system. Set for delivery on Sept. 29, z/OS 3.1, the operating system grows ...

While International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) generates most of its revenue from software and consulting services, the company's hardware business is still an important piece of the puzzle. IBM's ...

When the next generation of IBM mainframe, the z17, makes its anticipated summer debut, it will be outfitted with multiple technologies aimed at making the Big Iron mainframe the ultimate AI server.

IBM on Monday will release z/OS, its z900 mainframe operating system upgraded to take advantage of the new model's 64-bit design z/OS is a major overhaul of the basic software that runs the mainframe, ...

IBM has launched a new rack-mounted version of its latest mainframe. Big Blue this week unveiled new single frame and rack mount configurations of IBM z16 and the LinuxONE 4 server. Both are based on ...

Following is the IBM mainframe evolution starting with the System/360 introduced in 1964. The IBM mainframe is the longest running computer family in history. Although current IBM mainframes are ...

Nicolas Temese didn't use 3D printing. He built the entire model of the 1401 computer system from scratch, including teeny tiny punchcards. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and ...

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You might not think that ‘Linux’ and ‘mainframe’ belong in the same sentence, but IBM has been putting various flavors of Linux on its mainframe computers for 15 years. Today IBM and Canonical ...