Fujitsu has quietly revealed its plans to shutter both its mainframe and Unix server system business by the end of this decade. In a notice posted to the Japanese IT giant's website, the company ...

Last time, I shared with you a letter from a correspondent in South Africa who is required to restructure what seems to be a large and fairly complex IT environment. His shop includes mainframes, open ...

The days when IBM 's mainframe computers held a monopoly on enterprise computing may have ended with the influx of cheaper x86 and Unix servers. But Big Blue is still reinventing its big iron. And now ...

As IBM tries to consolidate its grip on the mainframe market, competitors see an upcoming product transition as a chance to steal some bones from the top dog. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Here's a bit from the introduction to a recent article by Ken Milberg under the title ""="">. Today's new breed of smaller, cheaper mainframes, paired with the Linux operating system, look like an ...

Only half a dozen years ago, the computing world was abuzz over the seemingly limitless possibilities of the PC client/server networks that were popping up everywhere. As a result, computer-industry ...

The mainframe business is to I.B.M. what manufacturing is to the American economy, a shrinking but strategically vital part of the franchise. With the introduction of a new generation of mainframes on ...

Commvault has come up in discussions as an alternative to TSM as our primary backup solution. <BR><BR>For the larger enterprise folks out there in a very mixed environment that include AIX, ESX, ...

Francis Feldman recalled last week that as he got closer to choosing a vendor to help his company with a mainframe-to-Unix migration, he was worried. But the IT manager said that after “a sleepless ...

John Appleby takes on the behemoths as he predicts the end of the mainframe. We've heard this before. Is now the time? Judge for yourself. Two years ago, I called the HP Superdome out as being as dead ...

Even as IBM celebrates the 40th anniversary of its mainframe line, the company is finding that competitors in that market haven't stopped trying to siphon money from that multibillion-dollar business.