Mainframes and legacy systems have presented IT executives with a dilemma for much of the past decade. In the race to move IT operations to the Web in the 1990s, many companies considered dumping the ...

As part of an effort to increase the amount of mainframe database expertise it can put at the disposal of IT organizations, Syncsort today announced it has acquired Cogito. Syncsort CEO Josh Rogers ...

A team of mainframe computing veterans today is launching a set of products for streamlining access to big iron data and announcing $2.2 million in seed financing. VirtualZ Computing Corp. is ...

In order to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) for mainframes, CA unveiled a new version of CA (News - Alert) IDMS, its mainframe database management system. The company said that the system ...

PEARL RIVER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Syncsort, the global leader in Big Iron to Big Data software, today announced new data integration capabilities that expand support for Microsoft Azure. Now, ...

Bitwise, a data management services company, announced the launch of its Hadoop Adaptor for Mainframe Data, intended for converting any mainframe data in EBCDIC format to Hadoop-friendly formats such ...

IT's mainframe managers don't want to give you access but do want the mainframe's data used. Here's how to square that circle Many so-called big data — really, Hadoop — projects have patterns. Many ...

Mainframes continue to excel at traditional tasks such as high-speed transaction processing and running large batch workloads. Mainframes also have the ability to easily handle large amounts of ...

BMC Software Inc. will soon release the first of its SmartDBA tools for IBM’s DB2 mainframe database, marking what it called a significant milestone in its effort to provide a single console for ...

PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NTT DATA, a digital business and IT services leader, announced it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide its proven UniKix solution as part of the AWS ...

Back in 1991, InfoWorld‘s then Editor in Chief Stewart Alsop predicted the plug would be pulled on the last mainframe in five years. Oops. Eight years after their ...

The first mainframes were behemoth machines that could occupy entire city blocks. Since then, the mainframe has compacted and evolved into a cutting edge state—similar to other technologies modernized ...