Richard Plessala’s IT career was launched at Sirius, a CDW company, in 2003. There, he has spent 19 successful years providing IT solutions to clients through individual sales roles, specialist roles ...

VIRTEL, a provider of innovative mainframe solutions and creator of the original browser-based 3270 emulation Virtel Web Access, is launching Virtel Screen Redesigner (VSR), a cutting-edge tool ...

There is an undeniable role for the mainframe computer in tomorrow’s large enterprise. Some businesses will opt to exit the platform, but those that retain it in a digital-first world must address ...

A vast majority of executives say their businesses accelerated transformation efforts in the face of rapidly changing market environments, according to those involved in a survey conducted by the IBM ...

Around a third of modernisation projects that lift and shift mainframe workloads to a distributed architecture often fail, according to a regional executive at Rocket Software. In an interview with ...

Mainframe users looking to bring legacy applications into the public or private cloud world have a new option: LzLabs, a mainframe software migration vendor. Founded in 2011 and based in Switzerland, ...

IBM hopes that the z890, which can be purchased with a processing capacity as low as 26 MIPS (million instructions per second), will appeal to companies looking to consolidate a large number of ...

The mainframe has been written off more than once, yet it remains stubbornly central to how the world’s largest organisations run. On IBM’s own reckoning, it sits behind 87% of all transactions ...

IBM today is marking the 40th anniversary of its first mainframe by introducing the zSeries 890 mainframe server for midsize enterprise customers. “We’re introducing a brand-new IBM eServer zSeries ...

Companies just can't quit mainframes. While cloud infrastructure hogs the spotlight, mainframe systems continue to dominate major segments of the economy, especially those that require ...