The University of Florida has bought a lower-end IBM z800 mainframe along with 32 Intel servers to investigate grid computing, a method of spreading calculations across groups of machines. The z800 ...

Big Blue replaces Sun Microsystems at Telia, a Scandinavian telecommunications customer that will use an IBM mainframe running Linux instead of 70 Sun servers. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

IBM Wednesday will mark the 40th anniversary of the introduction of its first mainframe computer by introducing a scaled-down version of its zSeries 990 mainframe servers called the zSeries 890, which ...

IBM’s new Z mainframe server system has the ability to encrypt all data it handles, whether it’s actively being accessed or modified, or merely sitting idle. Better yet, its encryption keys are ...

IBM plans to release on Tuesday two new higher-end versions of its z990 mainframe, along with a promotion to coax customers to try blade servers and other Big Blue products. When IBM began selling in ...

IBM has sued Platform Solutions, which aims to sell servers that will run software designed for Big Blue's mainframes, alleging patent infringement and breach of contract. IBM, which filed the suit ...

IBM announced the zEnterprise mainframe server and a new systems design that allows workloads on mainframe, POWER7 and System x servers to share resources and be managed as a single, virtualized ...

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 seems very proud of its latest “hybrid” mainframe-cum-blade-server, the zEnterprise 196. Big blue hopes the greener, 50,000-MIPS z196 will reverse the slowdown in its big-iron sales. In IT ...

IBM Corp. rolled out a new mainframe computer Tuesday boasting a 50 percent performance boost and dramatically lower energy costs than its predecessor. The new System z10, with a starting price at ...

The result of a three-year research effort, Virtualization Engine (VE) will ship on some IBM eServer systems as early as next month, said Tim Dougherty, manager of the Armonk, N.Y.-based computer ...

A non-IBM mainframe that runs IBM mainframe operating systems and applications. In the late 1960s, RCA's computer division produced the Spectra 70, the first line of machines compatible with IBM's ...