IBM continues to fine-tune its mainframe to keep it attractive to enterprise users interested in keeping the Big Iron in their cloud and AI-application development plans. The company released a new ...

IBM OS/2 was an alternative to Microsoft Windows throughout the 1990s, but Microsoft won out in the end, and the operating system was relegated to niche use cases. Over 24 years since the final OS/2 ...

The July 1987 issue of PC World magazine featured a centerfold (!) of Microsoft CEO Bill Gates proudly sporting an OS/2 buttonPC World It was one of the most ambitious computer-product announcements ...

IBM releases z/OS 2.5 to help modernize mainframe computing Your email has been sent IBM recently announced the release of version 2.5 of its z/OS mainframe operating ...

IBM says the z/OS 3.1 operating system will further integrate AI, embrace cloud stores, and improve performance of Linux workloads. IBM said this week it will soon roll out an AI-infused, hybrid-cloud ...

Mainframe users still stuck on IBM’s previous-generation OS/390 operating system now have a compelling reason to switch to the current z/OS: IBM will stop new sales of the OS/390 Dec 17. After that ...

IBM is aiming to make Watson Data Platform a de facto operating system for data science in the months ahead as it compiles various functions and parts and combines them into a cloud-based effort to ...

IBM has outlined a month-long plan to fix datacenter equipment running on its Power CPUs, which the company has now confirmed are vulnerable to the Meltdown and Spectre CPU attacks. The company today ...

"Hypervisor" software lets computers juggle more tasks at once--and could boost a potential open-source rival, News.com has learned. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

IBM yesterday announced the release of a new version of its OS/400 operating system — the V5R1 — that it claims will significantly enhance the manageability and scalability of its long-standing ...

IBM no longer has the right to use or distribute the Dynix/ptx operating system it acquired in its 1999 purchase of Sequent Computer, The SCO Group said on Wednesday. IBM’s rights were terminated ...

IBM is out with what it says is the first-ever mainframe running the Linux operating system. The new Z-series mainframe for Linux, which costs $400,000 and is aimed at processing transactions at large ...