In time for the upcoming 40th anniversary of the mainframe, IBM on Thursday plans to unveil what it calls the most significant release ever of its DB2 database for mainframes, featuring more than 100 ...

When it comes to security auditing, the mainframe just hasn't kept up with the times. So today database security firm Guardium and mainframe software firm Neon Enterprise Software will announce that ...

DataKinetics, a provider of mainframe transaction and performance solutions, announced a solution designed to increase mainframe data capacity and throughput while decreasing data access request time ...

Exploiting recent hardware enhancements that IBM added into its System z mainframe servers, enterprise software provider BMC has updated its line of performance tuning products to help customers get ...

Just in time for what will be a large number of required migrations, CA Technologies has updated its software for managing DB2 databases running on IBM z/OS mainframes. “DB2 is a very rich environment ...

Remember the mainframe “green screen” 3270 terminals used by so many companies? Well, they haven’t gone away. Tim Grieser, program vice president at IDC, is of the opinion that the number of currently ...

Normally, for this column, I would write a technical article or something on leadership. However, Big data and the impact of analytics on large quantities of data is a trend that is here to stay. The ...

IBM has signed an OEM agreement with Cockroach Labs – maker of the distributed PostgreSQL-like cloud RDBMS CockroachDB – in a bid to help modernize mission-critical applications reliant on mainframe ...