The launch of the AI-focused z17 mainframe earlier this year has been a major success. Infrastructure is expected to drive 1.5 percentage points of revenue growth in 2025 for IBM. IBM boosted its ...

Mainframes and AI? Isn't that something like a Model-T Ford with a Tesla motor? Actually, no. Mainframes are as relevant in 2022 as they were in the 1960s. IBM's new IBM z16, with its integrated ...

Big Blue plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to convert new customers to the high-end server line. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...

IBM Corp. said today it’s using its recently announced generative artificial intelligence service watsonx to help enterprises modernize their most business-critical mainframe applications. Watsonx ...

IBM sold off large portions of its hardware businessin 2014. The company no longer sells the Intel-based servers that dominate the data center, and it no longer manufactures its own processors.

IBM has dominated the mainframe computer business since the category was created four decades ago. And it still gets about one-quarter of its $100 billion in annual revenue from sales, software, ...

The new systems, IBM's first mainframes with a starting price of about $100,000, aim to replace hundreds of smaller servers in order to increase data center manageability and reduce power consumption, ...

IBM mainframes are known for very unusual terminals. But IBM made many different things, including the IBM 3151 ASCII terminal, which uses a cartridge to emulate a VT220 terminal. [Norbert Keher] has ...

First impressions are that the latest incarnation of IBM’s mainframe family, the z15, is based around a fortuitous coming together of a bride’s outfit for a wedding: something old, something new, ...

IBM’s new Big Iron, code-named T-Rex, is not your father’s mainframe. The zSeries 990 has brawn and – unlike its predecessors – the z990 is built to be flexible. It can accommodate varied workloads ...