mainframe

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“The mainframe serves as the backbone for the world’s largest enterprises managing the most complex and critical workloads,” Woodring wrote, ticking off banking systems, airline reservations, and transaction processing as a few examples.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

In his view, although alternatives have been available for decades, clients are sticking with mainframe for a host of reasons: reliability and speed advantages, better cost efficiency at scale, and security such as quantum-safe encryption.

From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026

He views the mainframe business as “resilient” given examples from IBM of how customers are growing, not shrinking, their workloads.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026

“Software and mainframe performance supported strong results for what many consider a defensive name,” said JPMorgan analyst Brian Essex, who rates the stock a neutral.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026

I used the code that listed Detective Barrone’s call to my father to wiggle into the Division of Detectives mainframe.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin