Swedish telco Telia has dealt a severe blow to Sun Microsystems by scrapping 70 Sun servers and replacing them with a single IBM S/390 mainframe running Linux. Telia will use an S/390 mainframe to ...

IBM has expanded its server lineup with a new mainframe system designed just for Linux that may be aimed, in particular, at higher-end x86 systems. The new system uses IBM’s specialty Linux processor ...

IBM's x360, first server based on Intel's multiprocessor-enabled Xeon chip, code-named Foster, will go on sale in the UK next week. The x360 has several firsts for Intel-based servers that bring ...

Unisys Corp. has released a new mainframe, its most powerful to date, aimed at enterprises that are consolidating servers and moving to Web services. The system includes built-in .Net and Java support ...

IBM is launching what it calls a “skinny mainframe” for cloud computing. The system is built around IBM z14 mainframe technology, and it features a 19-inch industry standard, single-frame case design, ...

IBM’s new Z mainframe server system has the ability to encrypt all data it handles, whether it’s actively being accessed or modified, or merely sitting idle. Better yet, its encryption keys are ...

They say that age is only a number, so with that in mind, IBM set out to prove that the 50-year-old mainframe still has what it takes to dominate enterprise computing. The new offerings include the ...

Big Blue on Monday will debut its newest model in the old-guard mainframe line, a less-expensive system that can run only newer software. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

There’s a new leader in the race for the longest product name of the year: Toronto’s Blockade Systems, which late last month at Microsoft’s Tech Ed conference released ManageID Enterprise Suite for ...

In an age of seemingly disposable servers, there are still organizations out ready and willing to plunk down hundreds of thousands of dollars for good ol’ big iron — enough so over the past year to ...

IBM announced the zEnterprise mainframe server and a new systems design that allows workloads on mainframe, POWER7 and System x servers to share resources and be managed as a single, virtualized ...