You don't have to know COBOL to work in big iron. APIs open up mainframing to anyone with coding skills. A few weeks ago I found myself in a meeting with the technical team at a major investment ...

“If you are ignoring the mainframe you are ignoring a big part of many large enterprises’ IT environment,” said Brent Carlson, senior VP of SOA Software. “The reality is the mainframe applications are ...

Some people believe the mainframe is obsolete – an ancient relic of 1960s computing. For others, it serves an important role as long as it sticks to its knitting, handling core transaction processing ...

Nevertheless, mainframe vendors contend that many companies want to use their big iron for cloud computing. In a CA Technologies-sponsored survey of 200 U.S. mainframe executives last fall, 73% of the ...

Thousands of enterprises use mainframes as their system of record. In fact, getting the most out of the mainframe is a key competitive advantage — so much so that it’s helped to shift popular opinion ...

In the financial services industry, where IT systems are high-volume and mission-critical, news of Big Iron’s ‘big crisis’ is greatly exaggerated, at least for now. It’s true that in today’s digital ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Software today introduced a new way for businesses to unleash the value of mainframe data in the API economy, giving them an efficient, scalable way to get new ...

IBM launched its z15 mainframe with an eye toward server consolidation, hybrid cloud applications and processing billions of transactions a day and a heavy dose of design thinking. The z15 is the ...

Remember the mainframe “green screen” 3270 terminals used by so many companies? Well, they haven’t gone away. Tim Grieser, program vice president at IDC, is of the opinion that the number of currently ...

Mainframe developers are not just retiring, they are expiring -- and young developers have little interest in mainframe careers. Mainframe programmers have be treated like bus drivers whose only job ...

The digital-first imperative, combined with cost and skills factors, have many businesses re-evaluating their commitment to the mainframe, say T S Lakshmi Narasimhan and Pavankumar Murali, Cognizant ...