Tackling the enormous challenge of updating outmoded government computer systems is a bit like opening a time capsule. Several federal agencies are still using mainframes installed during the Nixon ...

On Tuesday, Microsoft and ISV partner MicroFocus announced new members of the Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA). These include Covansys, Fujitsu Software, Getronics, Information Analysis, Modis, MSS ...

The trajectory of Compuware's development over the last few years raises some interesting areas of speculation as to where it might all lead, especially when one couples it with what looks set to be ...

BMC Software last week introduced a software suite the company says will kill two management birds with one stone: The company’s new Java-based System Advisor portfolio will help customers that are ...

As an IT professional responsible for your organization’s mainframe computers, you’ve built an extremely reliable, high-performing, and secure computing environment. While your staff or your ...

Parasoft announced the release of a service virtualization solution intended to help development and QA teams access the complete, realistic test environments needed to develop or test an application.

Mainframes will still be in use in the future for Westpac Group despite the bank’s stated goal to reduce costs through its IT transformation strategy known as the strategic investment program (SIP).

In a lawsuit, IBM alleges that the mainframe "emulator systems" offered by Platform Solutions Inc. violate IBM patents on its z/OS operating system as well as patents relating to its previous ...

Roger Allan is an electronics journalism veteran, and served as Electronic Design's Executive Editor for 15 of those years. He has covered just about every technology beat from semiconductors, ...

Mainframes were the punchline of jokes in the early days of cloud computing, but their steady dependability is still critical to IT architectures. A certain Fortune 500 financial institution decided ...