A Mythical Phoenix: Mainframe’s Evolution

Similar to the IBM System/360-descended mainframe, now 55 years old, and which has often been called dead, it continues to be the computational foundation of the world economy, while our awareness of it and willingness to build new business activities on it is what actually comes and goes.” Despite rumors over the last roughly 25 years that the mainframe is dead, it continues to be relevant today, adapting to technology and business changes over the course of its life. Harbeck adds, “While the mainframe technology does indeed continue to advance in ways that keep getting renewed attention from decision makers as the only platform able to handle the highest-capacity and -security workloads, it is really the business awareness of the mainframe’s value and potential that has temporarily gone down and is now ready to come back up again.”

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