This article on mainframe computers was originally published by Trevor Eddolls on Enterprise Systems Media. Many organizations have mainframe computers installed, yet those organizations often miss...

No one can afford downtime. There’s a problem, though: infrastructure is incredibly complex. There are many systems and networks that depend upon one another to support a single business...

How important are mainframes today? One way of answering that question is to take a look at some statistics relating to how mainframes are currently used. Keep reading for mainframe statistics that...

Mainframes were developed long before anyone was thinking about the trends and technologies that define modern computing. Concepts like open source software were decades away from emerging when the...

Mainframe and midrange server are probably among the least understood terms in IT – due in part to the fact that folks don’t necessarily know what differentiates these types of systems from...

I don’t like to admit how long it took me to embrace the cloud. Fortunately for me, I was already a cloud believer by the time I saw Snowflake, so I was ready to appreciate what a game changer it...

If you run an IBM mainframe today, you have to choose between two great operating systems options to power it:  Linux vs. z/OS. How do you decide? Here’s a guide to choosing the right...

If you’re using ServiceNow and have traditional IBM environments, there’s an excellent chance that ServiceNow can’t discover them. That’s a problem, because there’s still quite a bit of...

If your company is like 70% of the Fortune 500, it continues to use mainframes for its most business-critical IT workloads. In such organizations, finding ways to get more bang for the mainframe...