Over a decade since the Neon lawsuit, Big Blue sues LzLabs, alleging the Swiss mainframe migration firm infringed its mainframe patents
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Fujitsu Confirms It Will End Mainframe Sales in 2030
Bad news for banks? Mainframe sales will end in 2030, and support will cease by 2035, Fujitsu reveals in roadmap announcement
AWS re:Invent: News Roundup From 2021 Conference
Silicon breaks down the noteworthy news announcements and innovations presented by AWS at this week's AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas
AWS re:Invent Conference Welcomes Back Crowds
Over 27,000 attendees and members of the press (including Silicon) attend Amazon Web Services worldwide event in Las Vegas this week
RBS Natwest Websites Suffer Outage
Websites for RBS and Natwest suffer outage from 9am on Tuesday and problems are ongoing
Sainsbury’s Bank Customers Locked Out Of Accounts – Report
Banking outage sees customers locked out of their accounts on Tuesday, but services are now recovered
Tales In Tech History: ICL, The British Computing Giant
The life and times of a British computing giant that took on the world before falling into foreign ownership
IBM Revamps Mainframes With Eye On Data Protection
The IBM Z mainframe uses dedicated silicon to boost cryptographic performance, meaning organisations can encrypt all their data, all the time
Tales In Tech History: Cobol
Invented in the 1950s and still around nearly sixty years later. It has been quite a journey for Cobol
Met Office Mainframe Upgrade Will Speed Up Weather Data Analytics
New IBM mainframe increases capacity by 35 percent for Met Office, which claims faster analysis could save lives
Tales In Tech History: The Mainframe
The ultimate tech survivor? Big iron computers began life back in the early 1950s and are still in use today
How Barclays Avoids Downtime Chaos
Bala Chandrasekaran of Barclays, explains how the bank hopes to avoid a repeat of last year's Christmas banking disaster
HP Grants OpenVMS New Lease Of Life
HP gives the mainframe-oriented operating system OpenVMS, a new lease of life
Unisys Finally Retires CMOS Mainframe Processors
Older mainframes can be replaced with compatible models based on x86 chips
IBM Q1 Disappoints With Ongoing Hardware Decline
IBM's first quarter results make for grim reading as it reveals the lowest quarterly revenue in five years
Big Iron Birthday: Mainframes Are 50
IBM announced the System/360 mainframe in April 1964, kicking off a revolution in centralised computing
HPC Market Slides In 2013 – IDC
After a record year in 2012, the high-performance computing (HPC) market experienced a tougher year in 2013
IBM Opens Contest To Tackle Mainframe Skills Shortage
IBM opens its 'Master the Mainframe' contest to increase the global supply of skilled mainframe workers
IBM Launches New Entry-Level Mainframe
IBM touts the zEnterprise BC12 as being a cost-efficient mainframe system for the masses
IBM Q1 Disappoints As Poor Deal Closures Bite
IBM has surprised the markets after its first quarter 2013 financial results fell short of Wall Street expectations
IBM Posts Healthy Profits After Growth Market Focus
IBM's profits were up in the fourth quarter due to strong software and hardware performance, but revenues declined
IBM PureSystems – A Bit Of Cloud For Mainframes?
IBM PureSystems are a quiet revolution, says IBM's Tikiri Wanduragala
Compuware APM For Mainframe Offers Transaction Control
Compuware is offering new management tools to provide IT departments with deep transaction management
IBM Expands PureSystems Integrated Mainframes For Big Data
IBM Converged mainframes now available for Big Data analysis
IBM Upgrades zEnterprise Cloud Mainframe
IBM has launched a new and more powerful zEnterprise mainframe system, boasting enhanced cloud security
CA Issues Mainframe Academy Scholarships
CA has issued the first five Mainframe Academy scholarships as it seeks to combat the mainframe skills shortage
Mainframe Developer Skills In Short Supply, Compuware Warns
A new Compuware study has revealed that most CIOs are ill-prepared for the shortage of mainframe developers
EU Settles IBM Mainframe Antitrust Concerns
European regulators have accepted IBM’s mainframe maintenance move after antitrust concerns
IBM Reveals 1,000 Mainframe Skills Schools
IBM has revealed more than 1,000 schools globally that are now teaching System z mainframe skills
Mainframe Skill Shortage Poses Financial Risks
The shortage of mainframe skills could result in increased costs and system outages, Compuware warns