IBM's Cognos subsidiary announced on Monday that Cognos 8 business-intelligence software will be available on the IBM System z mainframe running Linux. Until now, the software has mainly been targeted ...

IBM is betting big on pervasive encryption with a new mainframe dubbed IBM Z that may land new workloads amid data breaches. The company has rolled out the IBM Z, its next-generation mainframe that's ...

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That means even if a hacker gets to your personal data, they would not be able to read any of it. It would be like discovering a treasure chest only to find a virtually unbreakable lock on it. The ...

As it previewed in March, IBM is set to deliver an AI-infused, hybrid-cloud oriented version of its z/OS mainframe operating system. Set for delivery on Sept. 29, z/OS 3.1, the operating system grows ...

New AI toolkits, machine learning (ML) frameworks and AI-based private cloud tools are on their way to IBM Z-series mainframe users, as the company looks to preserve its share of the fast-growing AI ...

IBM seems very proud of its latest “hybrid” mainframe-cum-blade-server, the zEnterprise 196. Big blue hopes the greener, 50,000-MIPS z196 will reverse the slowdown in its big-iron sales. In IT ...

IBM’s mainframe servers are not a new addition to the company’s portfolio—in fact, they’ve been more or less the gold standard for enterprises since the 1960s for fault-tolerant transaction processing ...

When you think of mainframes, chances are you are thinking about some massive piece of hardware that costs millions and can be used as furniture. Now, IBM wants to change that perception with the ...

As we reported recently, IBM is accelerating its efforts to bolster mainframe education in an effort to increase the number of professionals entering the workforce with mainframe skills. Now the ...

IBM has launched a new mainframe system capable of running more than 12 billion encrypted transactions per day, in a bid to wade further into the financial cyber security market. The mainframe, called ...

IBM is expanding support for Linux on mainframes with a few new initiatives announced today, including plans for an Ubuntu distribution. The announcement also includes a new Linux mainframe server ...