The Team Effort That Led to the z17
June 18, 2025
The IBM z17’s 43 billion transistors, 24 million miles of wire and 18 layers of metal form a system capable of 35 billion transactions a day. It’s safe to say it took a team effort to build it. In fact, the process of creating IBM’s new mainframe, hitting general availability June 18, was so extensive […]
Articlesz17 Tries to Top the GOAT
June 18, 2025
IBM looks to keep the momentum going with its new mainframe and a focus on future use cases
ArticlesA Rare Education: Budding Mainframers Prepare to Carry the Torch
May 12, 2025
Students at the school, one of the few in the U.S. offering mainframe instruction, prepare to carry the torch
Press ReleasesIntroducing GitLab Ultimate for IBM Z: Next-Gen Tooling in DevOps for IBM Z
May 9, 2025
This powerful integration delivers a unified experience for mainframe and cloud-native development, helping enterprises modernize their software delivery and unlock new levels of speed, security and scalability.
PodcastsA 43-year Mainframe Odyssey, With Duane Baer
March 21, 2025
Duane Baer, CEO of Baer Consulting, got his first taste of the mainframe with the System/360 and never looked back—hear his account of the mainframe's evolution as he joins Reg Harbeck on TechTalk Enterprise
3 IBM Z Day Takeaways: Looking Back on IBM’s Largest Tech Event of the Year
October 25, 2024
Mainframe uses are expanding, Ross Mauri, general manager of IBM Z and LinuxONE, said during his keynote presentation
ArticlesQuantum Computing, the Mainframe’s New Horizon
October 1, 2024
A few of the ways the mainframe can leverage the unique properties of qubits for transactions and large-batch processing
ArticlesVisionaries Share Innovations in Mainframe Efficiency and Observability
September 30, 2024
Mark Wilson, technical director at Vertali, highlights advances in AIOps and DevOps from SHARE's Tech Field Day
ArticlesIBM Z Day 2023 Focuses on the Future
October 25, 2023
IBM Z Day, IBM’s annual virtual conference, returned this year to showcase the next generation of innovation. Throughout the one-day event, thought leaders, global developers and mainframe users of all levels came together to connect, learn and be inspired by the latest insights in IBM Z technology. IBM Z Day 2023, held on Oct. 18, […]
ArticlesIBM z16 and Power10 Deliver Highest Reliability Among Mainstream Servers for 15th Consecutive Year
July 5, 2023
The IBM z16 mainframe lives up to its reputation for delivering “zero downtime.” The latest z16 server, introduced in April 2022, delivers nine nines—99.9999999%—of uptime and reliability. This is just over 30 milliseconds of per server annual downtime, according to the results of the ITIC 2023 Global Server Hardware, Server OS Reliability Survey. ITIC’s 2023 […]