The work is fulfilling, the tools are state-of-the-art, and demand for mainframe-literate developers has never been greater If you’re an ambitious developer, you probably tend to follow industry buzz ...

As students study other technologies, vendors try to develop new talent and offer tools to fill the gap for these critical systems Before tablets, smartphones, and PCs became prominent, “big iron” ...

A lot has changed at Compuware Corp. since its sale to private equity firm Thoma Bravo LLC for $2.4 billion last year. The mainframe software maker drastically cut release cycles as part of an ...

IBM will spend $100 million over the next five years to make its mainframe line easier to administer and program, the company said Wednesday. IBM's decades-old mainframe lineage, called System z and ...

Mainframe programming is decidedly un-sexy in the IT industry. But as the baby boomers skilled in maintaining mainframes retire, there is heightened demand for IT graduates to replace them, says The ...

Frank is a social media journalist for the CDW family of technology magazine websites. A record number of students from around the world competed in IBM’s latest Master the Mainframe contest, and ...