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IBM Sues LzLabs Over Mainframe Patents

Over a decade since the Neon lawsuit, Big Blue sues LzLabs, alleging the Swiss mainframe migration firm infringed its mainframe…

3 years ago

Fujitsu Confirms It Will End Mainframe Sales in 2030

Bad news for banks? Mainframe sales will end in 2030, and support will cease by 2035, Fujitsu reveals in roadmap…

3 years ago

AWS re:Invent Conference Welcomes Back Crowds

Over 27,000 attendees and members of the press (including Silicon) attend Amazon Web Services worldwide event in Las Vegas this…

3 years ago

RBS Natwest Websites Suffer Outage

Websites for RBS and Natwest suffer outage from 9am on Tuesday and problems are ongoing

5 years ago

Sainsbury’s Bank Customers Locked Out Of Accounts – Report

Banking outage sees customers locked out of their accounts on Tuesday, but services are now recovered

5 years ago

Tales In Tech History: ICL, The British Computing Giant

The life and times of a British computing giant that took on the world before falling into foreign ownership

7 years ago

IBM Revamps Mainframes With Eye On Data Protection

The IBM Z mainframe uses dedicated silicon to boost cryptographic performance, meaning organisations can encrypt all their data, all the…

7 years ago

Tales In Tech History: Cobol

Invented in the 1950s and still around nearly sixty years later. It has been quite a journey for Cobol

7 years ago

Met Office Mainframe Upgrade Will Speed Up Weather Data Analytics

New IBM mainframe increases capacity by 35 percent for Met Office, which claims faster analysis could save lives

8 years ago

Tales In Tech History: The Mainframe

The ultimate tech survivor? Big iron computers began life back in the early 1950s and are still in use today

8 years ago

How Barclays Avoids Downtime Chaos

Bala Chandrasekaran of Barclays, explains how the bank hopes to avoid a repeat of last year's Christmas banking disaster

8 years ago

HP Grants OpenVMS New Lease Of Life

HP gives the mainframe-oriented operating system OpenVMS, a new lease of life

10 years ago

Unisys Finally Retires CMOS Mainframe Processors

Older mainframes can be replaced with compatible models based on x86 chips

10 years ago

IBM Q1 Disappoints With Ongoing Hardware Decline

IBM's first quarter results make for grim reading as it reveals the lowest quarterly revenue in five years

11 years ago

Big Iron Birthday: Mainframes Are 50

IBM announced the System/360 mainframe in April 1964, kicking off a revolution in centralised computing

11 years ago

HPC Market Slides In 2013 – IDC

After a record year in 2012, the high-performance computing (HPC) market experienced a tougher year in 2013

11 years ago

IBM Opens Contest To Tackle Mainframe Skills Shortage

IBM opens its 'Master the Mainframe' contest to increase the global supply of skilled mainframe workers

11 years ago

IBM Launches New Entry-Level Mainframe

IBM touts the zEnterprise BC12 as being a cost-efficient mainframe system for the masses

11 years ago

IBM Q1 Disappoints As Poor Deal Closures Bite

IBM has surprised the markets after its first quarter 2013 financial results fell short of Wall Street expectations

12 years ago

IBM Posts Healthy Profits After Growth Market Focus

IBM's profits were up in the fourth quarter due to strong software and hardware performance, but revenues declined

12 years ago

IBM PureSystems – A Bit Of Cloud For Mainframes?

IBM PureSystems are a quiet revolution, says IBM's Tikiri Wanduragala

12 years ago

Compuware APM For Mainframe Offers Transaction Control

Compuware is offering new management tools to provide IT departments with deep transaction management

12 years ago

IBM Expands PureSystems Integrated Mainframes For Big Data

IBM Converged mainframes now available for Big Data analysis

12 years ago

IBM Upgrades zEnterprise Cloud Mainframe

IBM has launched a new and more powerful zEnterprise mainframe system, boasting enhanced cloud security

12 years ago

CA Issues Mainframe Academy Scholarships

CA has issued the first five Mainframe Academy scholarships as it seeks to combat the mainframe skills shortage

13 years ago

Mainframe Developer Skills In Short Supply, Compuware Warns

A new Compuware study has revealed that most CIOs are ill-prepared for the shortage of mainframe developers

13 years ago

EU Settles IBM Mainframe Antitrust Concerns

European regulators have accepted IBM’s mainframe maintenance move after antitrust concerns

13 years ago

IBM Reveals 1,000 Mainframe Skills Schools

IBM has revealed more than 1,000 schools globally that are now teaching System z mainframe skills

13 years ago

Mainframe Skill Shortage Poses Financial Risks

The shortage of mainframe skills could result in increased costs and system outages, Compuware warns

13 years ago