Seeking to replace millions of lines of COBOL at the SSA, the US Department of Government Efficiency should consider the adage, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,’ experts say.

By Grant Gross

6 May 2025 6 mins

Digital TransformationGovernment ITMainframes

Almost nothing remains of Software AG

With the sale of Alfabet and Cumulocity, what was once Germany’s second-largest software provider continues to shrink.

By Manfred Bremmer

8 Jan 2025 3 mins

Business Process ManagementDatabasesMainframes

How to ready your business for the ‘Age of Performance’

Industrial businesses are turning to digital transformation to elevate performance and ensure future sustainability, writes Ravi Gopinath, Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Cloud Officer at AVEVA.

By Ravi Gopinath

13 Nov 2021

High-Performance Computing

Microsoft and Atom Computing claim breakthrough in reliable quantum computing

Companies unveil a commercial quantum machine featuring 24 entangled logical qubits.

By Gyana Swain

20 Nov 2024 1 min

Data CenterHigh-Performance ComputingQuantum Computing

The mainframe’s future in the age of AI

Many companies are already using AI to assist with their mainframe modernization efforts, and many plan to run AI on big iron as well, survey says.

By Grant Gross

25 Oct 2024 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT StrategyMainframes

AI on the mainframe? IBM may be onto something

Big Blue is betting that big iron for AI is a worthwhile investment for enterprise CIOs. With so much critical data still running through these legacy systems, IT leaders with hopes for AI might just agree.

By Paula Rooney

3 Oct 2024 10 mins

Generative AIIBMMainframes

IBM Z mainframes get AI boost with new Telum II processor, Spyre accelerator

At the Hot Chips 2024 conference, IBM announced its Telum II processor and previewed its Spyre accelerator for AI and other high-performance Big Iron workloads.

By Michael Cooney

29 Aug 2024 7 mins

Mainframes

Appeal court overturns $1.6bn mainframe software ‘poaching’ ruling against IBM

AT&T ‘independently decided” to replace BMC software, the appeals court found.

By John Leyden

4 May 2024 3 mins

LegalMainframes

In transition: How Kyndryl’s CIO weaned the company off IBM’s systems

When IBM spun out its managed infrastructure services business as Kyndryl in 2021, the new company had two years to transition to its own IT systems. It also chose to use that time to undertake a major transformation.

By Peter Sayer

9 Nov 2023 7 mins

Application ManagementCIOMainframes

AMD takes hybrid approach to engineering the cloud’s future

To ensure AMD can power a more powerful public cloud, CIO Hasmukh Ranjan embraces two worlds: cloud-fueled business transformation and massive engineering workloads on the ground.

By Paula Rooney

31 Mar 2023 7 mins

Digital TransformationHigh-Performance ComputingTechnology Industry

CIOs sharpen their mainframe exit strategies

With skillsets aging, costs accruing, and ends-of-life looming, CIOs are getting serious about divesting their big iron estates, with some opting for the steep journey to the cloud.

By Esther Shein

10 Oct 2022 10 mins

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