In time for the upcoming 40th anniversary of the mainframe, IBM on Thursday plans to unveil what it calls the most significant release ever of its DB2 database for mainframes, featuring more than 100 ...

DataKinetics, a provider of mainframe transaction and performance solutions, announced a solution designed to increase mainframe data capacity and throughput while decreasing data access request time ...

For instance, SQL Performance for DB2, which roots out resource-hogging SQL queries, has been rewritten to run on the zIIP processor. “Of the tools a customer can have, typically the tuning and ...

When it comes to security auditing, the mainframe just hasn't kept up with the times. So today database security firm Guardium and mainframe software firm Neon Enterprise Software will announce that ...

Just in time for what will be a large number of required migrations, CA Technologies has updated its software for managing DB2 databases running on IBM z/OS mainframes. “DB2 is a very rich environment ...

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 ...

IBM has signed an OEM agreement with Cockroach Labs – maker of the distributed PostgreSQL-like cloud RDBMS CockroachDB – in a bid to help modernize mission-critical applications reliant on mainframe ...