BMC Software Inc. has added IBM Corp.’s IMS mainframe database to the platforms supported by its SmartDBA family of products, completing a two-year mission to provide tools for managing all of the ...

The mainframe IT sector still makes news once in a while. Compuware Corp. on Dec. 6 announced that it has acquired the assets of Standardware, a longtime provider of IMS virtualization for mainframe ...

Conniving naysayers have propagated the myth of the mainframe’s demise for decades, but a swift and momentous evolution of mainframe innovation and usage in recent years has debunked this propaganda ...

Oracle has introduced a new release of Oracle Tuxedo 11g, an application server for C/C++, COBOL, and dynamic languages. Optimized to run on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2, the new release of ...

This is the 11th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the ...

Enterprise software and services company BMC today unveiled new capabilities and enhancements for its Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) and Compuware portfolios. The new capabilities were ...

LzLabs reached out to discuss my article, "Applying 'Software Defined' to Mainframes." They thought the article didn't fully capture what they were doing, and wanted to provide a more detailed ...