mainframe

Kavanaugh said that despite the rough quarter, IBM’s mainframe business should grow in the second half of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

“I think you might see some, ‘Hey, we’ll hold off on this for a couple quarters…we don’t need to upgrade to the new mainframe right now,’” Morgan said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

They include a nugget from the California gold rush; an 1879 lightbulb by Thomas Edison; a mainframe component from ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer that was built in 1946 and weighed 30 tons.

From Barron's ● May 29, 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

We were built so differently, he and I. For one thing, Barack’s head was an overpacked suitcase of information, a mainframe from which he could seemingly pull disparate bits of data at will.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

Hardware sales are only about 20% of IBM’s revenue, and mainframes are about a quarter of hardware sales, but its software and consulting services are heavily dependent on those sales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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