IBM is suing LzLabs, saying the company's "software defined mainframe" (SDM) violates IBM’s mainframe patents. In a legal action filed in Waco Texas, IBM claims that LzLabs' systems, which offer to ...

A complaint alleging that IBM has abused its position in the European mainframe market was filed with the European Commission on Tuesday. The complaint from T3, a small US supplier of mainframes, said ...

IBM on Thursday will unveil a new hybrid mainframe design that aims to cut data center sprawl and be a bridge to other systems. All of the hardware giants---IBM, HP, Cisco, Dell and Oracle---are ...

For two decades, people in tech circles have been saying that the mainframe is on its way out, or that it's dead altogether. Funny thing about that -- someone forgot to tell IBM. Just look at IBM's ...

For the past several years, Big Blue has transferred the technology inside its mainframes to beef up its other server lines. Now the process is going the other way. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Big Blue is set to announce upgrades to its mainframe computer, refreshing a high-end server line many had given up as extinct. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

IBM's latest big iron features full-scale encryption and a major boost to processing power. The last major mainframe refresh came in January 2015 with the launch of the System z13. The z13 is capable ...

While International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) now derives most of its revenue from software and consulting, the decades-old mainframe business is still an important part of the century-old tech ...

While International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) generates most of its revenue from software and consulting services, the company's hardware business is still an important piece of the puzzle. IBM's ...

When the next generation of IBM mainframe, the z17, makes its anticipated summer debut, it will be outfitted with multiple technologies aimed at making the Big Iron mainframe the ultimate AI server.

A non-IBM mainframe that runs IBM mainframe operating systems and applications. In the late 1960s, RCA's computer division produced the Spectra 70, the first line of machines compatible with IBM's ...