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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The distinction between applications locked in big-iron mainframes and those running on distributed client/server and Web-based systems could fade, thanks to new and enhanced data management software ...

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 ...

BMC Software Inc. will soon release the first of its SmartDBA tools for IBM’s DB2 mainframe database, marking what it called a significant milestone in its effort to provide a single console for ...

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 ...

So many hyped upgrades, one heritage heavy system that simply refuses to die. Peter Cottrell, long-term government mainframe ...

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 ...