Mainframe news stories

Accenture
Bringing legacy mainframes into the modern IT environment
Legacy mainframes also suffer from technology or architecture limitations, high maintenance costs, and heavy technical debt.

BYOD / Bring Your Own Device
The rising importance of mainframe security
Mainframe-reliant organisations should maintain a robust security posture to ensure that data remains secure.

Compuware
BMC snaps up Compuware, sets sights on mainframe industry
According to BMC, this transaction builds on BMC’s track record of investing in its growth. The acquisition is expected to close in the coming months, subject to customary closing conditions.

DevOps
Why mainframe modernisation could help drive digital transformation
"Mission-critical mainframe applications must be kept up to date to address modern business demands."

DevOps
Three 2019 mainframe industry predictions
Bill Miller presents his three predictions for the coming year in the industry that is the backbone of the expanding digital environment.

Cloud
Fujitsu launches new GS21 mainframe models
The CPU performance of the new models has been improved by up to 20%.

Machine learning
2018 forecast to be the year of hardware and mainframe modernisation
This expert says the advance of AI, machine learning and the IoT in 2018 will expose the importance of modernising legacy hardware and mainframes.

IBM
CSC heads back to the future with IBM Global Technology Services
CSC has announced an alliance with IBM, in which IBM will provide its Cloud Managed Services for z Systems.

Mainframe
Cloud computing revives struggling mainframe
If there was a sure thing we could expect from distributed computing, it was the death of the mainframe.

Cloud
Do you know your 'IT debt'?
Two thirds of kiwi IT decision makers users don’t know what it would cost to bring their application portfolios up to date.