Mainframes have been the workhorses of the corporate data center for more than half a century. With the advent of new technologies such as the cloud and low-cost x86 commodity servers, many tech...

At a time when cloud computing and commodity x86 servers seem to be generating all the excitement in the IT world, the venerable mainframe refuses to be left behind. We see mainframe use cases today...

What is big data, really? Despite what the term implies, the definition is not actually about the size of your data. It’s how you use the data.  What is the big data definition? When it comes to...