After deciding to focus its efforts squarely on the mainframe at the end of 2014, Compuware is starting 2015 off with the launch today of Topaz, a data virtualization framework that makes mainframe ...

A team of mainframe computing veterans today is launching a set of products for streamlining access to big iron data and announcing $2.2 million in seed financing. VirtualZ Computing Corp. is ...

As part of an effort to increase the amount of mainframe database expertise it can put at the disposal of IT organizations, Syncsort today announced it has acquired Cogito. Syncsort CEO Josh Rogers ...

Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, today announced an expansion of its collaboration with Amazon Web Services ...

In order to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) for mainframes, CA unveiled a new version of CA (News - Alert) IDMS, its mainframe database management system. The company said that the system ...

Mainframes and legacy systems have presented IT executives with a dilemma for much of the past decade. In the race to move IT operations to the Web in the 1990s, many companies considered dumping the ...

PEARL RIVER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Syncsort, the global leader in Big Iron to Big Data software, today announced new data integration capabilities that expand support for Microsoft Azure. Now, ...

Bitwise, a data management services company, announced the launch of its Hadoop Adaptor for Mainframe Data, intended for converting any mainframe data in EBCDIC format to Hadoop-friendly formats such ...

For most organizations, assuring compliance with regulatory policies that govern how mainframe data is stored and accessed is challenging. This is, in part, due to the traditional cost structure of ...

IT's mainframe managers don't want to give you access but do want the mainframe's data used. Here's how to square that circle Many so-called big data — really, Hadoop — projects have patterns. Many ...

The drive to combine the mainframe computer and the cloud – at first sight perhaps seen as an attempt to join chalk with cheese’ – continues to gather pace, and is attracting new players that are ...

Back in 1991, InfoWorld‘s then Editor in Chief Stewart Alsop predicted the plug would be pulled on the last mainframe in five years. Oops. Eight years after their ...