IBM announces new mainframe offerings

IBM yesterday announced new offerings for System z that will provide clients with a platform for the rapid development and deployment of mobile applications, and the complete integration of these with their core business processes, applications and data. The...

IBM takes the mainframe into the cloud

As it celebrates 50 years since its first mainframe launch, IBM has announced a series of new enterprise cloud offerings for the platform which will help clients and service providers to reduce the cost of operations and rapidly deploy trusted cloud services with...

The mainframe: 50 and still going strong

Today (8 April 2014) marks the 50th anniversary of IBM’s mainframe computer – an event that heralded the beginning of the era of commercial computing. 50 years ago, IBM introduced the System/360, considered by many to be the most sophisticated computer of its time and...

IBM patents secure mobile notifications

IBM inventors have patented a cloud computing security technique that enables app developers to ensure that data notifications are securely and confidentially pushed to and from mobile devices. Maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of data shared via mobile...

Lucky 13 for Big Blue

For the 13th consecutive year, IBM has been named by Gartner as the global market share leader in the application infrastructure and middleware market. Gartner’s All Software Markets, Worldwide, 2013 report names IBM as the leader in application infrastructure and...