Mainframe Update

Directors and shareholders of IBM must have tucked in to their Christmas dinners with a certain amount of satisfaction that the company was ...

It was 2001 the last time Christmas fell on a Tuesday, and Tuesday seems like the worst day of the week to have such a major holiday. This i...

In a year that saw data centres wanting to turn themselves green and mid-range server users discovering that virtualization (or sometimes si...

It’s like young love – all sharing and caring, and long endearing looks. Yes, IBM and Sun Microsystems, who used to take every opportunity t...

Every few years I get involved in a project that requires a list of mainframe vendors to be produced. This task in itself can be quite dull...

You’re probably familiar with the service management joke, and it’s a fairly weak joke at best, but it does contain within it a horrible gra...

Who says mainframes are hard to use and integrate with other systems? Well, it seems just about everyone who hasn’t spent long periods of ti...