mainframe

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

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

“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

There is a perception that IBM’s mainframe business could be threatened by AI.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

But Pembroke knew exactly whom to call: those high school kids from Lakeside who had been running up thousands of hours of computer time on the ISI mainframe.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

IBM’s warning suggested AI infrastructure spending is now displacing hardware budgets, too—squeezing a company whose customers install traditional systems in their own data centers and can defer big-ticket upgrades such as mainframes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

IBM has reinvented itself many times, transitioning from tabulators and time clocks in its earliest days to personal computers, mainframes and supercomputers and later AI and hybrid cloud computing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 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