The venerable mainframe computer is experiencing a surprising but well-deserved resurgence, as the organizations that depend on these systems realize how important they are for digital initiatives and ...

For nearly a decade, the Vermont Department of Labor sought to replace the rickety mainframe computer that has powered its unemployment insurance system since the 1980s. Under a federal program ...

The prototypical high-tech "unicorn" is a startup that investors view as the next big thing. Rocket Software, which recently joined the club of private companies valued at $1 billion or more, is an ...

A small Minneapolis mainframe computer software startup is poised to change the way enterprises use and share data across the cloud. VirtualZ Computing Inc. claims to be the first and only ...

Big Blue is set to announce upgrades to its mainframe computer, refreshing a high-end server line many had given up as extinct. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

John Markoff Steve Lohr of the New York Times has a good piece on an interesting product that you and I won’t be buying: IBM’s new mainframe computer, which Big Blue announced today. The story ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The most popular things to do with the state Division of Motor Vehicles are down until further notice because of a computer mainframe issue. The agency announced Thursday morning ...

Large-scale companies usually use mainframe computers for centralized management and to reduce the costs of IT resources. While smaller businesses do not have access to the same level of hardware and ...

My friend Wilfried in the Netherlands (he hates it if I say he's from Holland, in which case he once again explains the difference to me at great length) just pointed me toward an interesting blog on ...

When Betelgeuse, the University of Manitoba’s 47-year-old mainframe computer, breathed its last recently, the computer science department turned out in full to pay their last respects. There’s a ...

Over 60 years ago the first narrative video game designer, Mabel Addis, created the first educational computer game: The ...