mainframe
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The tech industry might have abandoned powerful-but-specialized mainframe computers and shifted to the cloud, but IBM’s customers—what you might call the “real” economy—still lean heavily on them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Sales of the z17, the company’s flagship enterprise mainframe designed for the artificial-intelligence age, fell short of its expectations, in line with the previous investor warning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Krishna said the launch of the company’s z17 mainframe and the associated software stack in the second quarter ended up being “worse than our expectations” for infrastructure revenue to fall in the low-single-digit range.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
“It was a shot to the heart and the chest and the mainframe with Luka,” James told reporters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
In one seven-month period in 1971, Gates and his cohorts ran up 1,575 hours of computer time on the ISI mainframe, which averages out to eight hours a day, seven days a week.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
While other tech giants spend on AI data centers, Big Blue aims to keep selling mainframes and pour profits into quantum computing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
He essentially bet that corporate clients running critical programs on their own mainframes purchased from IBM couldn’t or wouldn’t migrate to remote data centers offered by Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
However, Morningstar’s Yang explained that mainframes fall into a different class of hardware and process different workloads than hyperscaler servers do, for instance.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
The infrastructure division, which includes IBM’s mainframes, reported revenue of $3.3 billion, which was just ahead of the $3.1 billion FactSet consensus and represented growth of 15% from the previous year.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
Computers up to that point had been the massive, expensive mainframes of the sort sitting in the white expanse of the Michigan Computer Center.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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