IBM's latest mainframe is available with the option of a cut-down operating system that only runs newer software, and does not run traditional mainframe software such as CICS transaction processing.

The launch of the AI-focused z17 mainframe earlier this year has been a major success. Infrastructure is expected to drive 1.5 percentage points of revenue growth in 2025 for IBM. IBM boosted its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mainframe computing is having a moment — again. Nearly 60 years after the first IBM System/360 debuted as a mainframe platform, it continues to evolve in ways that defy expectations, powering critical ...

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 has dominated the mainframe computer business since the category was created four decades ago. And it still gets about one-quarter of its $100 billion in annual revenue from sales, software, ...

While IBM has continued to evolve the mainframe to stay relevant in an AI and cloud computing world, IT organizations have continued to struggle with a shrinking pool of skilled workers who know how ...

Forty years after Big Blue introduced the S/360, the zaftig systems are still going strong and finding a way to fit into 21st-century computing. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, ...