In many ways, the modern computer era began in the New Englander Motor Hotel in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met in secret to figure out how to ...

A look back shows a “resume full of significant milestones in computing history,” according to IBM. The mainframe’s handling of big data analytics and cloud computing are helping with IBM’s Smarter ...

The officials cite "deeply troubling reports of dangerous interactions" that have "rightly shaken the American public's confidence." Authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson sue Apple, alleging it ...

April 7, 1964, might not be a day you remember. But for IBM, it was monumental. On that day, you see, Big Blue introduced a major new family of mainframe computers called the System 360. The company ...

Known as drab-looking machines that sit in huge air-conditioned rooms, the IBM mainframe computer has been called the dinosaur of the technology world. About a decade ago, pundits predicted it would ...

Mainframe computing was born in the 1960s with the arrival of the System/360, and has continued to advance today to the z14, and continues to set the standard for the ultimate in security, ...

Forty years after Big Blue introduced the S/360, the zaftig systems are still going strong and finding a way to fit into 21st-century computing. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, ...

Gene M. Amdahl, chief architect of IBM’s System/360 mainframe and later the creator of the IBM plug-compatible mainframe vendor that bore his name, has died aged 92. Amdahl was born in South Dakota, ...

Last month, Open Mainframe Project hosted their second annual Open Mainframe Summit, announcing record growth in contributions, with more than 105.31 Million Lines of Code written and over 9,600 ...

The S/360, the computer that spawned IBM's mainframe line, turns 40 on Wednesday--but it's not wallowing in a midlife crisis. Although some pundits regularly declare the death of the mainframe, the ...