IBM wants to bring machine learning to its traditional mainframe customers, and eventually to any technology with large data stores hidden behind a company firewall in what IBM calls a “private cloud.

There are unique issues and challenges faced by enterprises with mainframes, among the top of which are security and automation of operations. As the sheer amount of data housed on mainframes rises, ...

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Despite the emphasis on X86 clusters, large public clouds, accelerators for commodity systems, and the rise of open source analytics tools, there is a very large base of transactional processing and ...

Kristine Harper was a high school senior when she took her first mainframe class. Six years later she’s a professional mainframe programmer and platform evangelist to young people beginning their IT ...

The mainframe computer has been around for over half a century, and it seems like people have been predicting its demise for almost as long. But the only thing going away is the workforce that ...