Mainframe Concentration: Mainframe Solutions comprise 54% of CA's total revenue and 85% of total segment operating profit at the end of December 0003.
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Though we estimate IBM mainframe revenues are less than 5 percent of the company's total revenues, customers buy software, services and storage as well that work with the mainframe.
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It accelerates with computer adoption, really started with the mainframe in the early 1950s and started with government mainframe deployment, gathering data for social security, for NASA, for the IRS.
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In the film, Cyrus voices Mainframe in an uncredited voiceover.
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Roughly half of IBM's mainframe business is in financial services.
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I've never even used a mainframe directly for actual work.
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Don: Back in those days, computers were large mainframe devices.
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The PC market dwarfed the earlier mainframe and minicomputer markets.
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"It's much like the old mainframe computing environment, where a Web browser is like a dumb terminal and the Web server is like the mainframe where all the processing's done," Jobs said to Wired.
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While the IBM mainframe remained important, the terminals connecting to the central computer went away in favor of Macintoshes that could access the mainframe through emulation — and could also do a whole lot more.
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A growth in the mainframe business might also improve IBM's margins.
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In the shift from mainframe to client-server, computers became accessible.
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Computers themselves were often giant mainframe beasts that filled entire rooms.
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This capability will be available for mainframe customers later this quarter.
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In many ways, the new z14 ZR1 is the successor of the company's entry-level z0003s mainframe (though, I guess we can argue over the fact whether any mainframe is really 'entry-level' to begin with).
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At first users rented time on mainframe machines they did not own.
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Mainframe is a robotic operating system that has taken over a planet.
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The mainframe business is alive and well, as IBM announces new z15
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Rubin Worldwide's studies have shown costs at server-intensive IT shops are 65 percent higher than those of mainframe-intensive shops, and that mainframe companies earn 28 percent more profit per IT dollar spent than server-centric companies.
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"It didn't go from mainframe to the consumer hands immediately, right?" he says.
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Today, IBM announced the latest in their line of mainframe computers, the z15.
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IBM pointed to the end of the cycle of the z20193 mainframe computer.
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It was tantamount to bringing back the mainframe with dumb terminals, but instead of a costly mainframe, you had a pool of resources available from an off-the-shelf PC network, which presumably would be much cheaper and easier to operate.
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Other digital currencies under consideration include EOS, Cardano, Stellar, Tezos, ChainLink, Mainframe and Dai.
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From there, it got transferred into a statewide mainframe and, eventually, sold for profit.
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Costs should tumble as branches are shut, creaking mainframe systems retired and bureaucracy culled.
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Following that outcome Broadcom sought out mainframe software company CA, paying almost $19 billion.
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And this core systems of record runs, and should rightfully remain, on the mainframe.
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His memory for fashion was the mainframe; algorithms organized themselves organically in his head.
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The subject matter experts are the mainframe administrators, the developers and the training specialists.
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A generation ago, computing usually took place in a single mainframe or personal computer.
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The mainframe, called IBM Z, seeks to address cyberattacks which have compromised financial data.
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I'm going to take a mainframe juice press and create a personal juice press.
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IBM detailed a new mainframe system that can power 12 billion encrypted transactions per day.
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Only one Mainframe Guardian, "VERA," has been written to help the main characters battle cyberattacks.
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Mainframe is also "an alternate character" stemming from another Marvel character, Vision, according to SuperHeroHype.com.
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The latest is Mainframe Industries, a Nordic game studio building a massively multiplayer online title.
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This transition from mainframe to personal computing is often referred to as the Democratization of Information.
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When you bought an IBM mainframe computer, it came with an IBM chip and IBM software.
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There's a dire problem in which company's mainframe has been overrun by its own sock puppets.
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IBM dominated the early decades of computing with inventions like the mainframe and the floppy disk.
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Supercomputers are differentiated from mainframe computers by their vast data storage capacities and expansive computational powers.
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IBM Z is the latest in a series of 'z' mainframe systems developed by the corporation.
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But next quarter IBM will face hard comparisons with its mainframe business given the refresh, Kavanaugh said.
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I recall one CEO who was forced to code on an old mainframe clone in 1980s USSR.
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Most banks still run on old mainframe computers and manual changes, leading to delays for banking services.
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IBM staggers >8 pct as mainframe growth tapers off, software sales slow ** Consumer Discretionary flops 2 pct.
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Blockchains are groupings of data maintained by a disperse network of computers rather than a centralized mainframe.
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The company's systems business, which includes its mainframe servers and storage hardware, fell 19.5% to $1.75 billion.
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IBM got a lift in the quarter from strong sales of a new line of mainframe computers.
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He took a course in computer science at Control Data, a mainframe and supercomputer firm in Minneapolis.
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Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has purchased yet another company, and this time it's targeting mainframe customers.
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"The government is still operating like a mainframe computer while the rest of us all have smartphones."
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Why do you think the decision was made to work within the Obamacare mainframe rather than uproot it?
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"T-Systems will continue to offer mainframe services, but will subsequently provide these services with IBM," he said.
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In the mini-computer and mainframe eras, the prevailing wisdom was that you'd want these very rich vocabularies.
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CA's main business is selling software for big, mainframe computers, in which it is second only to IBM.
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It doesn't help that a lot of these mainframe applications were written in Cobol, PL/1 or assembly.
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At the same time the company has stuck around in core markets like mainframe computers and database software.
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"The mainframe services partnership with IBM would have been beneficial for all parties," he said in a statement.
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Model9, an Israeli startup launched by mainframe vets, has come up with a way to transfer data between mainframe computers and the cloud, and today the company announced a $9 million Series A. Intel Capital led the round with help from existing investors, including StageOne, North First Ventures and Glenrock Israel.
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In November 2017 a strike by German cargo-handlers stranded a shipment of IBM mainframe computers at Frankfurt airport.
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It's been 23 years (my god) since ReBoot, a Canadian kids' show about sentient mainframe guardians, blessed the airwaves.
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The original show takes place in a computer system called Mainframe, where guardian Bob and friends fight off viruses.
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IBM also forecast 2019 revenue below expectations, with pressure coming from weaker mainframe computer demand and a stronger dollar.
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Canine refers to these more expensive machines as 'mainframe' machines – or computers that existed before the PC came about.
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In the late 1950s, the IRS adopted IBM's mainframe computers and like magic, the number of audits required dropped.
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Geeks working on mainframe computers back in the '60s programmed early artillery simulators and swapped the codes among themselves.
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IBM research has found that the post-modern mainframe requires 69 percent less effort to secure than other systems.
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CA, formerly known as Computer Associates, has its roots in providing mainframe computers used by large institutions like banks.
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The shift happening in the space industry now is similar to the shift from mainframe computers to data centers.
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Today, it has a broad range of software products from mainframe programs to cloud-based software for computer security.
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It still has a large stable of mainframe software products, and that is by far its most profitable business.
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IBM has agreed to transfer valuable technology that could enable China to break into the lucrative mainframe banking business.
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The company announced deals with AT&T, Avaya and the Bank of China, and it introduced the z15 mainframe.
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Cornerstone, which provides very hands-on migration assistance, will form the basis of Google Cloud's mainframe-to-GCP solutions.
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Petsch's fiery red hair color is almost as important to Cheryl Blossom's mainframe as her quick comebacks and archery skills.
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Intel created the world's first commercial microprocessor in 1971, but the company's primary focus was memory chips for mainframe computers.
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IBM, for example, was listening to people who wanted marginally better mainframe computers when Microsoft was pushing ahead into PCs.
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Today wage suppression in Silicon Valley is even more of a distant memory than dial-up internet and mainframe computers.
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In the 227s, the firm bought its first mainframe computer, which took up the entire floor of an office building.
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Is someone trying to hack your keycard to the mainframe while you desperately run away with a dead phone battery?
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With its single-frame design, this new mainframe easily fits into any standard cloud data center or private cloud environment.
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The U.S. company has been hurt by slowing software sales and wavering demand for mainframe servers, making a turnaround difficult.
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"You don't get many college grads who say 'I want to be a professional in the mainframe space,'" he says.
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DE) struggling IT services and consulting business T-Systems is selling its mainframe service business to U.S. firm IBM (IBM.
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Today, the company unveiled the z14, its latest z-Series mainframe, which comes with the considerable draw of full encryption.
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CA Technologies, formerly known as Computer Associates, was founded in 1976 as a maker of business programs for mainframe computers.
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The company focuses on maintaining and upgrading legacy software, such as the mainframe software used by banks and major retailers.
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And while KarTrak was initially the product of an attempt to sell mainframe computers, it was surprisingly not very computerized.
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And Silicon Valley's continual reinventions, from the mainframe and PC to the internet and mobile phones, vindicated Schumpeter's faith in entrepreneurs.
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"If expensive diagnostic testing was genomics' equivalent of mainframe computers, direct to consumer ancestry genetics was the hobbyist use," he noted.
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Instead of playing those games though, I would pretend I was hacking into a government mainframe by smashing the keys erratically.
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Intel was founded by two former colleagues at Fairchild, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, to supply memory chips for mainframe computers.
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But we think the elephant may be starting to warm up its dance moves with a new partner, the Z14 mainframe.
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Two platforms What is working well is a hybrid two platform approach that integrates the post-modern mainframe and the cloud.
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Meanwhile, a well-managed and maintained mainframe is the most secure computing infrastructure available, requiring much less protection from outside attack.
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Intel was founded by two former colleagues at Fairchild, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, to supply memory chips for mainframe computers.
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Google Cloud announced Tuesday that it has acquired Cornerstone Technology, which Google says will migrate customers' mainframe workloads to Google Cloud.
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The mainframe will be used initially as an encryption engine for IBM's cloud computing technology and blockchain (distributed ledger technology) services.
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It demonstrated, she said, that internet technology and software methods could be applied to government health data from the mainframe era.
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Control Data 6600 CDC 6600 was the flagship mainframe supercomputer of the 6000 series of computers manufactured by Control Data Corporation.
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While his NLS console and workstation were sort of portable, the rest of the lab's gear was not, especially the SDS20123 mainframe.
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AppDynamics CEO David Wadhwani says the company wants to monitor your technology wherever it lives in the enterprise, from serverless to mainframe.
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In 1981, he co-founded Walker, Richter and Quinn (WRQ), a software firm that helped companies connect desktops with large mainframe computers.
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IBM faced an unprecedented international challenge in the mainframe market from Japan's NEC while Sony, Panasonic, and Toshiba made giant leaps forward.
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After graduation, she worked in mainframe operation and volunteered as a language interpreter, math tutor and for multiple positions with Planned Parenthood.
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IBM faced a technical challenge when it tried to increase sales of its best-selling product, the mainframe computer, in the 1980s.
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AWS could end up dominating the IT industry just as IBM's System/360, a family of mainframe computers, did until the 1980s.
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He points out that some of GM's IT systems still run on a mainframe, a specialty that's harder and harder to find.
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That took off starting in the 1960s, when mainframe computers made it possible to create huge digital files on citizens and customers.
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IBM announced last month that it was making OpenShift, Red Hat's Kubernetes-based cloud-native tools, available on the mainframe running Linux.
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This should enable developers, who have been working on OpenShift on other systems, to move seamlessly to the mainframe without special training.
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The technologically enlightened Boros would send data about each game to a mainframe in Philadelphia, then retrieve updated analysis the following day.
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Ms. Spencer plays Dorothy Vaughan, a supervisor who teaches herself and her black female staff to program the new IBM mainframe computer.
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Seeking management experience, he took a job at IBM, where he ran an operations division at the start of the mainframe era.
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The net result is a race to build whatever is going to do the smartphone what the PC did to the mainframe.
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Arvind Krishna, global director of its research arm, compares its efforts to how IBM created a market for mainframe computers in the 1960s.
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IBM is launching a new version of its z1003 mainframe for mid-sized enterprises today that introduces a number of new security features.
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Not just Unix, Mac and PC: there were all kinds of big mainframe computer and medium sized computers running all sorts of software.
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Government workers back then spoke of new threats they saw as the government went from single-use, big mainframe computers to shared environments.
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The laptop can support live music, and now we're used to holding in our pocket the equivalent computing power of a mainframe computer.
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NetSuite and Oracle both provide high-end software, but NetSuite specializes more in cloud computing while Oracle is heavy on mainframe database software.
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Adi Robertson, senior reporter: Even if the "mainframe" thing isn't quite a joke, it's so audaciously absurd that it's fun instead of wrong.
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Perhaps more importantly, the company's top line expansion was co-led by the old IBM mainframe business and its newest champion, Red Hat.
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Cramer applauded the company's cash flow numbers, mainframe business and contribution from Red Hat, the open-source software business it acquired last year.
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The Justice Department's epic case against IBM, which lasted from 1969 to 1982, centered on the mainframe company's integration of software and hardware.
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IBM said that the mainframe system is set to be the global tech giant's most significant system overhaul in more than 15 years.
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Thanks to advances in both hardware and software encryption processing, though, IBM says that its IBM Z mainframe can pull off the previously impossible.
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Obviously this technology is a long ways off and the current demonstration hardware looks like a mainframe tape drive or a piece of ENIAC.
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Or, you know, soft drink companies not going into the healthy drink business and mainframe companies not going into laptop business— DAVID FABER: --model.
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Sales growth of z14 mainframe servers, introduced about a year ago, have slowed as customers await the launch of new machines before they upgrade.
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To mark its first major cryptocurrency gift, on Monday, the nonprofit accepted a 1,000-ether donation from Mainframe, a decentralized network for censorship resistance.
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In some cases, compliance staff at large older banks sit glued to old mainframe style computers tucked away in remote parts of the bank.
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In 25, a group of four students at the University of South Carolina did something pretty wild: They bought a gigantic IBM mainframe computer.
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"I feel like the designers really considered MetroCard to be a mainframe database application with some random electronics to tie it together," Waldhauer said.
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But he trained most of his attention on the entity that was then the largest user of mainframe computing power: the United States government.
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To build it, Allende had hired Stafford Beer, a British consultant, who requisitioned a mainframe computer and connected it to telex machines in factories.
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And I went to IBM, so I saw the mainframe era, and then as mainframes gave way to mini computers I was at Wang Laboratories.
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Well, IBM says the main achievement is turning an experimental quantum machine into something with reliability (and looks) closer to that of a mainframe computer.
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He's been called the 'world's fastest geek'Boldon grew up surrounded by technology thanks to his father who worked as a systems analyst on mainframe computers.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - IBM said on Wednesday it will acquire EZSource, an Israel-based application discovery company, to help developers modernise mainframe applications for digital business.
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It will take work to retool decades of procedures that have been developed around real operational challenges and concerns, as well as mainframe IT infrastructure.
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With each successive wave of technology — from mainframe to client-server to 'X'aaS (IaaS, SaaS, etc.) to OAS — software has gotten progressively easier to adopt.
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IBM's systems unit, which includes mainframe servers sold to large organizations, climbed about 1 percent, compared with a 3.423 percent jump in the previous quarter.
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The approach prudently leverages the cloud to handle common applications and non-mainframe infrastructure as a service that are essential, though not uniquely mission-critical.
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When personal computers displaced mainframe computers, it opened the door not just for Apple, but for companies making PC software for business, games and publishing.
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"I never dreamed the internet would come into such widespread use, because the first users of the Arpanet were large mainframe computer owners," he said.
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There were several mainframe systems that kept track of things like the president's correspondence, and anybody who would be sending résumés in for presidential appointments.
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Here's my best guess about the photo: In 1959, the Italian company Olivetti, then known for its typewriters, created one of the earliest mainframe computers.
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CreditCreditPhilippe Calia for The New York Times BANGALORE, India — IBM dominated the early decades of computing with inventions like the mainframe and the floppy disk.
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He also used a mainframe computer to build a system to permit the student rooting section at Stanford football games to program elaborate card stunts.
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If so, does it signal a true turnaround — or is it merely a blip helped by strong sales of a new line of mainframe computers?
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It was useful knowledge for Sylvania's Applied Research Lab, which was looking for a project that would put the company's mainframe computers to good use.
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The answer, simply, is that PLATO's eventual commercialization, at the behest of mainframe supplier and eventual licensee Control Data Corporation, did not go well, partly because its mainframe-based setup was out of date and partly because UIUC's best innovations, like its plasma screen, didn't make it into the commercial product—understandable because the PLATO IV terminals cost between $5,000 and $7,000 each in 1972.
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The company's systems segment, which houses its mainframe computer business, fell 11.5 percent to $1.33 billion in the reported quarter, missing FactSet estimates of $1.37 billion.
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These washing machine–size minicomputers were only "mini" compared to the room-size mainframe computers that preceded them, and they cost tens of thousands of dollars.
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IBM said growth from the Power product line more than offset the impact from "product cycle dynamics" in the company's storage and Z mainframe-computer products.
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Why it matters: The government has lots of old code running on mainframe computers and is looking for help moving systems to modern, cloud-based infrastructure.
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T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom's struggling IT services and consulting business, and IBM plan to sign an agreement to jointly provide mainframe services, an IBM spokesman said.
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OS/290 is mainly used as the interface between a sophisticated mainframe database and the simple computers used in subway and bus equipment for everyday use.
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While OS/2 is used to connect various parts of the subway system to a larger mainframe, the input components weren't held to a higher standard.
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Shares in the computer chip maker fell 13 percent yesterday as investors reacted to its deal to buy CA Technologies, which makes software for mainframe computers.
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IBM said that its new mainframe utilizes transaction encryption technology to automate compliance processes, by allowing companies to demonstrate that the data they keep is encrypted.
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Today's announcement is about building on that original announcement and providing tools for these companies running legacy mainframe applications to ease that transition to the extent possible.
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Prior to this quarter, IBM had sustained three consecutive quarters of revenue growth, in part due to the introduction of a new mainframe computer, according to analysts.
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Almost every bank in the United States relies on a mainframe-based "core" banking platform, predominantly built by a few long-tenured providers (Fiserv, FIS, Jack Henry).
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But if the company's clients fret about instability among management, Infosys will struggle to retain the legacy mainframe-maintenance contracts it still depends on for most profits.
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Despite being designed as a dumb terminal—a client machine designed to make use of a more powerful mainframe—the ADM-19773A was a smash financial success.
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The movie is a little too self-conscious about its Cyberpunkery, and I bet a lot of its "he's tapped into the mainframe!" dialogue won't age well.
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IBM wants to provide data scientists with the same types of machine learning capabilities in a mainframe environment that they are used to finding in the cloud.
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IBM is expected to have gotten an extra lift in the most recent quarter from currency gains and strong sales of a new line of mainframe computers.
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Stakar is also speaking to a red creature named Krugarr and to Mainframe (voiced by Miley Cyrus), who are major characters of the Guardians comic book universe.
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Shutting down the mainframe is the second coming of that initial "match striking" — only this time, it's not only the stories of humanity that will be wiped out.
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Having run our data on May and Corbyn through the enormous, clanking Football Manager mainframe, we have the definitive answers on who would do better at Russia 2018.
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I'm going to take a mainframe juice press and I'm going to create a personal juice press,' and my original design was supposed to be easy to clean.
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IBM is looking to the deal, its biggest to date, to expand its subscription-based software offerings to counter falling software sales and declining demand for mainframe servers.
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First the telegraph, then the telephone, then the mainframe computer and then the internet all came and yet, mysteriously, saving or allocating capital got not one whit cheaper.
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In the movie, the villain Silva is able to hack into the MI6 mainframe, access the London Underground, and send one of the Tube's trains off the rails.
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Wood, at a meet-up in New York, called it "a computer at the center of the world," like a sixties-era mainframe that everyone everywhere can use.
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Today, they live in 22018 communities spread across some 40 countries, according to Jonah Blank, author of Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity Among the Daudi Bohras.
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Making the argument that we need large-scale agriculture for innovation and investment is like saying we need large IBM mainframe computers for innovation and investment in computing.
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It was then that the federal government started using mainframe computers to store and process copious amounts of our personal information collected by dozens of New Deal agencies.
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It underscores IBM Chief Executive Ginni Rometty's efforts to expand the company's subscription-based software offerings, as it faces slowing software sales and waning demand for mainframe servers.
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The Japanese giant NEC was a serious challenger to IBM in the mainframe market; Sony was running over consumer electronics, joined by powerful firms like Panasonic and Toshiba.
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A spokesperson describes the Internet Computer as a "next-generation distributed computing system — similar to its Mainframe, Client Server, and Public Cloud predecessors" that is based on cryptography.
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After a down-cycle, the company now expects a "normal" product cycle in the mainframe servers business during the fourth quarter, Chief Financial Officer James Kavanaugh told Reuters.
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By the end of 1984, Apple executives celebrated their triumph over the mainframe with 19 holiday parties, one featuring a Dickensian village peopled by performers in period garb.
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IBM is seeking to expand its subscription-based software offerings via the deal, its biggest to date, to counter slowing software sales and waning demand for mainframe servers.
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That file "is written in assembly language code — a low-level computer code that is difficult to write and maintain — and operates on an IBM mainframe," the report said.
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Several analysts pointed to the traditionally cyclical nature of mainframe revenues, which tend to surge for 2-4 quarters after the launch of a new launch before falling off.
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Mainframe is known for its antics back in March, when it avoided regulatory scrutiny over initial coin offerings by giving away its new coin for free at a party.
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Also, that we were gonna have these computers that weren't just gonna be latched to the mainframe in your company, but they were gonna reach out onto the network.
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Shares in Micro Focus jumped 1.5 percent, supported by a positive note from Deutsche Bank which began its coverage of the British mainframe computers operator with a "buy" rating.
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Antony Jenkins, who led the bank between 2012 and 2015, said that banks have a tendency to focus on mainframe data storage rather than seeking solutions on the cloud.
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Last year Broadcom, a chipmaker, raised eyebrows when it acquired CA Technologies, an enterprise software company with a broad portfolio of products, including a sizable mainframe software tools business.
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Here, powerful and cost-efficient systems of record — like the mainframe — remain in your data center to fuel the mission-critical and competitively differentiating side of the IT picture.
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He persuaded IBM to gamble $5 billion on a new class of mainframe computers, called System/360, in the early 1960s, and he led the team that produced it.
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He studied economics and geography at University College London and spent a year in the early 1960s studying at the London School of Economics, where he encountered mainframe computers.
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He looked at sample programs for the school's IBM 650 mainframe, a decimal computer, and, noticing some inadequacies, rewrote the software as well as the textbook used in class.
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Shortly after finishing a linguistics Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1980, Ken Whistler was frustrated by the inability of mainframe computers to print the specialized phonetic symbols that linguists use.
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To analyze his data, he had to bring it to the university's computing center, where a staff member behind a protective glass wall helped operate the center's mainframe computer.
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Meanwhile, in the driveway in front of the house, there were several boxes and objects left behind – including a box labeled with Oracle&aposs logo and an IBM mainframe.
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IBM has launched a new mainframe system capable of running more than 12 billion encrypted transactions per day, in a bid to wade further into the financial cybersecurity market.
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But IBM is one of the few big tech companies from the mainframe and minicomputer era to adjust — if painfully — to personal computers and the early days of the Internet.
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It took more than a decade, and four iterations, for the mainframe machine and its many terminals to reach their full potential—everything had to be be built from scratch.
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All they had at first, really, was an idea and a complex, somewhat rickety machine built by the university called the ILLIAC I, which was later upgraded to another mainframe.
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"We see limited upside to revenues due to currency headwinds, tough comps from the mainframe cycle, and a potential pullforward of software revenues into Q4," Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi said.
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Cantor Fitzgerald analysts led by Joseph Foresi said in a Friday note that they were expecting IBM to report gains from companies upgrading to IBM's latest mainframe computer, the z25.3.
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The haunting track and album was inspired in part by his father, who worked for IBM, featuring sound from one of the company's mainframe computers along with an orchestral score.
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Mr Schroeter expects the bump to be between $300m and $400m higher this time around, in part because a recently introduced new version of IBM's mainframe has been selling well.
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It provides frameworks for more than 15 different apprenticeship roles in fast-growing fields, including software engineering, data science and analytics, cybersecurity, mainframe system administration, creative design and program management.
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One of the first computers to use integrated circuits, the AGC was 70 pounds and under a cubic foot in size—something revolutionary for technology emerging from the mainframe era.
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We can't hack into the mainframe of our genitalia, pound away at a keyboard, then download a fix for whatever firewalls are keeping us from experiencing more pleasure and satisfaction.
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Analysts see CA Technologies as a way for Broadcom to acquire a highly profitable mainframe business that would broaden its portfolio, and apply its belt-tightening formula to raise profits.
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By the time I was 43, my uterus had turned into something like a floating, abandoned spaceship upon which alien life forces had attached themselves, wreaking havoc on its mainframe.
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Gil Peleg, CEO and co-founder at Model9, says that his company's technology is focused on helping mainframe users get their data to the cloud or other on-prem storage.
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Revenue from the company's cloud services, which are driving IBM's pivot away from established businesses including mainframe servers, rose 11% to $5 billion in the third quarter ended Sept. 3.43.
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Broadcom, which announced on Wednesday that it's buying CA for almost $19 billion, is turning away from rolling up semiconductor companies and toward buying up mainframe and infrastructure software companies.
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But every keystroke and mouse movement Engelbart made on the NLS console keyboard and mouse in San Francisco was instantly transmitted back to the lab's SDS940 mainframe back in Menlo Park.
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Somewhere in a world full of advanced technology that we write about regularly here on TechCrunch, there exists an ancient realm where mainframe computers are still running programs written in COBOL.
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Revenue at its systems unit, which includes mainframe servers and data storage systems sold to large organizations, climbed only 1 percent, compared with a 25 percent jump in the previous quarter.
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"We see limited upside to revenues due to currency headwinds, tough comps from the mainframe cycle, and a potential pullforward of software revenues into Q4," said Toni Sacconaghi, analyst from Bernstein.
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In fact, according to IBM, a modern IBM z Systems mainframe is capable of processing up to 2.5 billion transactions per day – the equivalent of roughly 100 Cyber Mondays every day.
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A spokesman for T-Systems declined to comment on the price but confirmed that the firm was deepening its cooperation with IBM in mainframe services and would operate together from May.
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When the team looked at the landscape for what else was available, the only options were existing technologies that run on mainframe computers and hadn't been updated in decades, Tenev said.
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He also highlighted a mainframe computing alliance with IBM that was struck in January and said more initiatives were in the works in areas such as smart cities, healthcare and cybersecurity.
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With all its spiked, hack-the-mainframe paranoia, it looks like something that could have been packaged as a bonus feature on a first-run DVD of Hackers or The Matrix.
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With the stock trading at roughly "10 times earnings [with a] 4.5% yield, I think IBM represents a decent investment for as long as that mainframe cycle keeps working," he said.
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Jassy presented a slide of a moving truck with Amazon Prime boxes inside, while a box labeled "Oracle" and an IBM mainframe were left behind in the driveway of the house.
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IBM – The stock was upgraded to "buy" from "neutral" at UBS, which thinks IBM's services and artificial intelligence businesses will perform well enough to outweigh any issues in the mainframe operations.
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While the company saw some expansion in recent quarters from the introduction of a new mainframe computer, the fresh cycle will turn into a headwind in the short term, the analysts wrote.
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Until recently, every computer on the planet — from a 1960s mainframe to your iPhone, and even inventions as superficially exotic as "neuromorphic computers" and DNA computers — has operated on the same rules.
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If you know how to protect your mainframe from the backdoor trojan worm that's duplicated the virus code malware drive in the reboot server, uh, code, then this article isn't for you.
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From mainframe computers to mobile devices, from vaccines to cures, American ingenuity underwritten by the U.S. patent system has compounded over time to make our lives longer, more productive and more fulfilling.
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Kautter said the equipment that failed was 1 1/85033-year-old software that runs mainframe computers, and that the problem that happened on the filing deadline had only occurred once before.
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However, when the security of bitcoin had originally been promised by saying, "Why, it would take a mainframe a thousand years to reverse engineer your private key," there is obviously a concern.
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They stood around a hulking console that looked like an old mainframe computer but was actually a self-cleaning robotic kitchen, designed to prepare an entire meal in less than three minutes.
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But in 24, while still in college, Mr. Stephenson joined Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, and soon he was working the night shift in a data center, changing out tapes on mainframe computers.
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It wasn't as simple as raking in Stanford and Berkeley grads—the industry was moving from mainframe computing to consumer technology, and required a skillset many people didn't have at the time.
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Those sensors would detect passing convoys and relay the data to a pair of IBM mainframe computers in Thailand, which would in turn direct helicopter gunships and aircraft to the predicted coordinates.
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Back then, he said, finished map data was entered onto coding sheets by hand, then taken to a local bank whose mainframe would crunch the numbers overnight after it finished clearing checks.
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Then, in late 22008, Engelbart acquired the first time-sharing computer, the Scientific Data System SDS220 mainframe that enabled his entire team to work on the systems they were building from separate workstations.
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IBM's 3.6 percent revenue growth came mostly from a 71 percent jump in sales of its new Z14 mainframe, which was launched in September, and a 27 percent growth in its cloud business.
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According to some estimates, although mainframe sales generate only 2% of the firm's revenues, related software and services account for a quarter of its revenues and more than two-fifths of its profit.
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If the move from mainframe and mini-computers to PC saw a 10X increase in applications and software, the move from PC to cloud and mobile will see an order of magnitude more.
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The card popped loose, either from low-level vibrations or because it wasn't inserted properly, creating a tiny 1/16-inch gap where it was supposed to be connected in the computer's mainframe.
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She is the daughter of Harriet Mayer Reilly and Joseph M. Reilly Jr. of Cedarhurst, N.Y. The bride's father develops mainframe software in the Islandia, N.Y., office of CA Technologies, a software company.
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One day Mr. Tesler was sitting in the school cafeteria reading his manual, which offered instructions on how to program an IBM 650 mainframe in the most low-level, arcane machine programming language.
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IBM – Barclays upgraded IBM to "overweight" from "underweight," saying IBM's long revenue decline may soon end and that the current mainframe cycle will allow additional time for IBM's strategic moves to take hold.
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Maybe that was because our mainframe was also in New Hampshire, on the PDP-1-based Dartmouth Time-Sharing System, which had been implemented in 1963 by Basic authors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz.
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The boy, 16, from Melbourne city, broke into the United States company's mainframe from his suburban home many times over a year, The Age newspaper reported, citing statements by the teenager's lawyer in court.
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"We got an entire mainframe team in 170 countries around the world that are driving like crazy to deliver the value to our clients to make this a secular shift, versus cyclical," Kavanaugh said.
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Click here to view original GIFIf you haven't already learned that life is just a bunch of disappointments, this maddening animation by Mainframe will teach you that you don't always get what you want.
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Once Muntz's team was finished, the operating system was assembled on a mainframe, then printed out as a sheaf of instructions, which were brought to a nearby facility managed by the defense contractor Raytheon.
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According to Chief of Technology and co-founder Shane Farritor, Virtual Incision's robots are like laptops compared to the mainframe-sized devices out on the market today, namely Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci Surgical System.
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In summary, IBM may have had two left feet for the last 5 years, but we think their new dance partner, the Z14 mainframe, may get the elephant shimmying again over the next year.
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And if no one can imagine doing social networking better than Facebook, remember that no one dreamed that the personal computer, once little more than a toy for hobbyists, would displace the mighty mainframe.
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As he says, if you have a legacy mainframe application that changes once every year or two, using CircleCI wouldn't make sense, but as you begin to modernize, that's where his company could help.
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The encryption offered in IBM's blockchain technology, which runs on the IBM mainframe, puts the tech giant in a class above the rest when it comes to making deals with global operators, Schroeter said.
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The encryption offered in IBM's blockchain technology, which runs on the IBM mainframe, puts the tech giant in a class above the rest when it comes to making deals with global operators, Schroeter said.
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RBC sees both cyclical and secular drivers that could improve IBM's performance, among them: a new cycle of mainframe purchases, as well as currency tailwinds that haven't been seen for a number of years.
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The mainframe computer of that era was a valuable shared resource, but due to the non-intuitive interface, control of the computing resource was isolated from the workers who used it to support their tasks.
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BMC's mainframe software business is estimated to generate approximately half of the company's operating profit and cash flow, yet it is a flat to modestly declining business, Moody's said in a research note in November.
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Infocom employees began programming games on a DEC PDP-83 mainframe at MIT, but all of the best titles made their way over to the Atari within a few years, notably between 1982 and 1986.
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Notwithstanding the success of the new mainframe models, which specialise in thwarting hacking attacks, this computing franchise "is eroding", in the words of Mr Milunovich, who expects it to continue to shrink by 3% annually.
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A slowly decreasing mix of higher margin Mainframe Solutions revenue should exert some downward pressure on margins, although Fitch expects CA to manage costs such that EBITDA margins remain around 40% over the rating horizon.
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This requires a fiscally responsible strategy of modernizing systems on the mainframe — speeding development to keep pace with the demands of a mobile, digital economy — versus moving off, to a lesser performing, more costly platform.
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Tech news site IT-Zoom reported that IBM will pay 860 million euros ($986.16 million)for the business, although T-Systems will not completely exit the mainframe business but offer services in future with IBM.
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Pennsylvania is partway through a technology overhaul, but "a lot of states are still operating on their old mainframe computer systems that are most likely not set up for remote access," Ms. Simon-Mishel said.
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During his 60-year career, Sottsass Jr. designed office systems (including the shell of the Olivetti mainframe computer, from 19613 to 1959) and systems for simplified living, as well, that were intended to discourage consumption.
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Now, IBM says it has a way to encrypt every level of a network, from applications to local databases and cloud services, thanks to a new mainframe that can power 12 billion encrypted transactions per day.
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Mr. Tesler later credited his experience with the LINC with helping to shape his perspective on personal computing, particularly after he waited long hours for even small programming jobs to be run on a mainframe computer.
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And if it is still running on a legacy mainframe, three-quarters of its IT budget is likely to go on "keeping the lights on", says Dharmesh Mistry of Temenos, which sells cloud-native banking software.
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For each phase of the three-stage trial, Annie, Owen, and the seven other trial participants climb into futuristic white chairs, ingest a letter-shaped pill, and upload their consciousness to the G.R.T.A super-computer mainframe.
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This is normally done to capture data from a legacy application, such as an IBM mainframe computer for instance, in order to display it using a more modern user interface such as a PC or mobile.
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Under the Thoma Bravo umbrella, the company was split into pieces, with the Compuware brand keeping the legacy mainframe software business and the faster-growing Dynatrace unit being spun out to focus on application performance management.
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Delaware is moving its voter-registration list off the state's aging mainframe computer and preparing to replace a 21-year-old electronic voting system that does not leave a paper record of votes to be audited.
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Mr. Jones compares the coding he is doing in his new position, and the mainframe code he used to write, to learning German and Italian (Italian, like today's computer languages, being less formal and rule-bound).
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The project stats page now shows a total compute performance of over 1.5 ExaFLOPS (aka 193,500,000,000,000,000,000 floating point operations per second), which dwarfs the computing ability of even the most powerful mainframe supercomputers on the planet.
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Here we see humanity devolved into a preindustrial society after an invasion by giant arthropod aliens that eat technology — along with any earthlings that get between them and the mainframe they plan to have for lunch.
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This was a gamble for many reasons, particularly because software was not seen as a product in its own right at this point in time, but rather something computer purchasers expected would come included with their mainframe.
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A T-Systems spokesman had declined to comment on the financial aspect of the arrangement on Sunday but confirmed that the company was deepening its cooperation with IBM in mainframe services and would operate together from May.
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Mr. Clark's computer designs built a bridge from the era of mainframe systems, which were inaccessible to the general public and were programmed with stacks of punch cards, to personal computers that respond interactively to a user.
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The boy, 16, from the southern city of Melbourne, broke into the U.S. computer giant's mainframe from his suburban home many times over a year, The Age newspaper reported, citing statements by the teenager's lawyer in court.
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The spacecraft had been guiding itself, relaying its position to Mission Control's IBM mainframe—a contraption the size of a walk-in freezer, which in 1969 was what people thought of when they heard the term computer.
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His office was adjacent to an air-conditioned room that housed two giant mainframe computers, which took up much of the first floor of the building, and which he oversaw in the manner of a doting parent.
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Giant mainframe computers were developed for use in specific contexts, such as academic, government, or military institutions, but the microprocessor revolution paved the way for personal computers that could be wielded according to the individual user's needs.
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Mainframe CEO Thor Gunnarsson acknowledges that titles have sometimes catered to the "lowest common denominator," but he believes that as game-streaming advances lower technical barriers, his team can focus wholly on solving the user experience challenges.
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The authoritative tone of the site implies that somewhere there's a computer mainframe running a program that monitors headlines, real estate sales, art auctions and whatever else, then processes that data and spits out a useful number.
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"Peter used M.I.T.'s most advanced computer — a mainframe about the size of a passenger elevator — to calculate the most efficient route to ride the entire subway system in the least amount of time," Mr. Miscione said.
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Treasury's master business file, which contains all tax data on individual business income taxpayers, likewise is written in that same assembly language code, which was first used in the 1950s, and maintained on the old-school IBM mainframe.
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Ole "Big Blue" is getting into the developer operations game again with its acquisition of EZ Legacy, a software development company that helps developers understand and change mainframe code based on information from its dashboard and visualization toolkit.
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The initial launch comprises an internal replacement of DTCC's mainframe processing system but the multi-step process aims to deliver widespread simplification of transaction reporting across the swaps market, potentially changing the role of trade repository operators altogether.
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At the time, computers were new to education; there were no monitors, and students played the first version of the game on a teletypewriter—an electromechanical typewriter that could communicate, via phone line, with a large, mainframe computer.
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He's also toyed with using an IBM punch card mainframe computer (obtaining a hash rate of 80 seconds per hash), as well as the 1973 Xerox Alto, which also netted him a still tepid 1.5 hashes per second.
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Here's how the company did: Revenue grew slightly on an annualized basis, IBM said in a statement, after it had fallen five quarters in a row, after the conclusion of an upgrade cycle for its z216 mainframe computer.
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At the time, computers were new to education; there were no monitors, and students played the first version of the game on a teletypewriter—an electromechanical typewriter that could communicate, via phone line, with a large, mainframe computer.
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From the 1950s into the 1980s, to take one example, many companies and government agencies used their new mainframe computers to generate more paper than they had before — possibly offsetting the productivity-enhancing aspects of new computational power.
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First, Sylvester Stallone's turn as Stakar / Starhawk and the appearance of Aleta Ogord (Michelle Yeoh), Charlie-27 (Ving Rhames), Martinex (Michael Rosenbaum), and Mainframe (Miley Cyrus) all point toward the future debut of the original Guardians of the Galaxy.
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The progress in artificial intelligence is the latest stage in a much longer revolution in information technology, stretching back to mainframe computers after World War Two, spreading to personal computers in the 1980s and the internet in the 1990s.
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Today's digital innovators can trace a similar historical path that starts with mainframe computers and monolithic applications and then, step-by-step, reveals software's interchangeable parts until we arrive at today's cloud-based era of microservices and continuous integration.
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IBM is doing its damnedest to keep the mainframe relevant in a modern context, and believe it or not, there are plenty of monster corporations throughout the world who still use those relics from the earliest days of computing.
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All that said, it's probably going to take more than total encryption for a company to spring for a mainframe unless it's core to their business, according to analyst Roger L. Kay from the firm, Endpoint Technologies Associates, Inc.
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The business saw strength even without factoring in IBM's latest mainframe computer, which was introduced a few quarters ago and has provided revenue growth, chief financial officer James Kavanaugh said on the company's conference call with analysts on Wednesday.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - IBM has withdrawn an application for anti-trust approval for a mainframe computing venture with T-Systems, the IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom, after the German cartel office made a critical initial assessment of the plan.
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With IBM's stock down over 2503 percent this year and having been stagnant for years, the company could have used its cash much earlier during a difficult transition from mainframe technology to open-source software, cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
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" The group said Wheeler's proposal kept in place a "40-year-old rule that is more obsolete than the eight-track tape or the mainframe computer ... The result will be less resources for the local news on which our democracy depends.
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IBM, for its part, has been struggling in recent years to transform itself from a firm which made most of its money from IT services, software and mainframe computers to one that is based on cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI).
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Despite expected lackluster revenue performance, Fitch believes that mainframe technology will remain viable over the long-term due to its security, availability and through-put advantages for mission critical applications, thus providing CA with an ongoing highly cash generative business.
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IBM wants to bring some core Watson machine learning smarts to its mainframe clients — and eventually to any computing done inside the data center — to allow them to take advantage of all that data in a more modern machine learning context.
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"I think one of the lessons that we learned, frankly, from this last episode is that probably during the peak of filing season we need to keep our backup system up and running simultaneously with our mainframe systems," he said.
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Erich Bloch, who helped develop the IBM mainframe computer that, more than any other machine, propelled the world into the digital age, and who then shepherded the internet into broader use as director of the National Science Foundation, died on Nov.
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"When there's a foundational change, like the move to the cloud, which is as foundational a change, at least, as the move from mainframe to open systems in the 80s and 90s," said Mike Speiser, Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures .
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IBM sees the mainframe as a bridge for hybrid computing environments, offering a highly secure place for data that when combined with Red Hat's tools, can enable companies to have a single control plane for applications and data wherever it lives.
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FRANKFURT, June 7 (Reuters) - IBM has withdrawn an application for anti-trust approval for a mainframe computing venture with T-Systems, the IT services arm of Deutsche Telekom , after the German cartel office took a closer look at the transaction.
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The company made a series of small acquisitions to build a position in the cloud analytics business, invested in strategic growth products as it phased out under-performing legacy businesses and brought in a new mainframe in order to boost earnings.
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"For decades, companies have relied on a mainframe architecture to run their mission-critical workloads, but it often holds developers back from taking advantage of new technologies that enable them to innovate more quickly," the company said in a blog post.
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From the Balkans, we zip to Iceland, where a former colleague of Bourne's, Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), hacks into a C.I.A. mainframe ("Could be worse than Snowden," someone says) and downloads a list of illicit programs onto a memory stick.
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Other un-smart stunts came back to me: No computer will ever amass enough mainframe cluelessness to cut a big patch from the pair of bluejeans that it is mending rather than from the old bluejeans that it uses for patches.
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The Armonk, New York-based technology services giant, which wrapped up the mega cloud merger with Linux maker Red Hat Inc last week, faced years of revenue declines while it shifted focus to the cloud from established businesses such as mainframe servers.
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However, once it's completed, the aforementioned Georgian president is shown on global news declaring war against the US. American soldiers begin to occupy Georgia and that vital information, previously believed isolated to the CIA's computer mainframe, is traced to the Russian Kalinatek building.
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It was there that they got their start in computing, working from a school Teletype terminal that was linked to a far-away mainframe computer under a so-called time-sharing computer system, in which operators paid for the computing time they used.
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It had formed as a coalition of smaller, local black power organizations like Guerilla Mainframe, the New Black Panther Party, and the Black Riders, with the intent of getting black people armed and exposing the racial double standard in Second Amendment expression.
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The programming language Ms. Sammet helped bring to life is now more than a half-century old, but billions of lines of COBOL code still run on the mainframe computers that underpin the work of corporations and government agencies around the world.
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Revenue from semiconductor solutions, Broadcom's biggest business unit, fell 10% to $4.09 billion in the second quarter, while revenue from its infrastructure software business came in at $1.41 billion Demand for enterprise and mainframe software remained stable, mainly in North America and Europe, Tan said.
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While virtually every software provider must invest in cloud capabilities, Fitch believes the lower rate of cloud adoption in infrastructure software somewhat insulates CA and its peers (particularly those outside of mainframe environments) from the revenue and margin pressures pervasive across application software vendors.
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And that this Lilliputian mainframe would have eyes to see, a sense of touch, a voice to speak, a keen sense of direction, and an urgent desire to count my actual footsteps and everything I read and said as I traipsed through the noosphere?
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The Armonk, New York-based technology services giant, which wrapped up the mega cloud merger with Linux maker Red Hat Inc last week, faced years of revenue declines while it shifted focus to the cloud business, away from established businesses such as mainframe servers.
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One example: large private sector organizations with the same "can't fail" mandates as government long ago determined that no cloud solution used for systems-of-record can approach the rock-solid reliability, performance, security and total cost of ownership of a post-modern mainframe.
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Ever since my consciousness was uploaded to the Apple mainframe roughly 85 years ago, I've worked hard to make sure we bring you, our customers, the best phones, earbuds, and weapons on Earth, combining practicality with that sleek Apple elegance you've come to expect.
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The printing press, the telegraph, the radio, the television, the mainframe, cable TV, the internet: Each had wild-eyed boosters who promised that a machine could hold the republic together, or make it more efficient, or repair the damage caused by the last machine.
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Earlier tectonic shifts noted by Jefferies included the mainframe era in the 1950s; the minicomputer era in the 1970s; the personal computer era in the 1980s and 1990s; the cellphone/server era in the 2000s and the parallel processing IoT era we're just now entering.
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Jason: You can steal or clone a mainframe, but running one reliably without support from IBM is pretty hard... Yael: Yeah, and in the meeting, it sounds like they were paying them money in this partnership, so I'm not sure what the plan was.
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First, it failed to appreciate the "major product shift" behind a new chip technology that first entered people's lives as the guts of pocket calculators and cheap digital watches and was making possible increasingly powerful and networked personal computers that undercut the company's mainframe business.
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Revenue from semiconductor solutions, Broadcom's biggest business unit, fell 10% to $4.09 billion in the second quarter, while revenue from its infrastructure software business came in at $1.41 billion Demand for enterprise and mainframe software remained stable, mainly in North America and Europe, Tan said.
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"I got really excited about it from this decentralized, democratized perspective like, 'Oh my god, there's a computer you can get for $35, less than the price of a curling iron, that is exponentially more powerful than the mainframe that took Apollo to the moon,'" he said.
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IBM's interest in the toolkit is more than just academic, there's a lot of value in being able to talk to developers about how to build the bridge between old-school mainframe systems and newer cloud-based applications, especially since IBM happens to be still selling mainframes.
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Broadcom, which has mushroomed in value by buying out rivals in the past decade's surge in mobile phone production, agreed on Wednesday to buy mainframe software company CA for $18.9 billion in cash, months after President Donald Trump blocked its $117 billion mega-merger with Qualcomm Inc.
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It hopes the new mainframe will enable companies to comply with new data protection laws, such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the U.S.'s Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) guidance on the use of encryption in the financial services industry.
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Zego's founders are Harry Franks who worked at a senior level at Deliveroo and before that luxury rental business onefinestay; Sten Saar worked for onefinestay and later developed operations at Deliveroo; and Stuart Kelly was lead developer at Mainframe and then head of engineering at start-up Hubble.
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"China is like skipping that whole client server wave that is going from in mainframe servers to these new architectures which are all built on open source, so it's a little bit likethe analogy of laying the phone wires to going straight to mobile," Whitehurst told CNBC's Managing Asia.
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Broadcom, which has mushroomed in value by buying out rivals in the past decade's surge in mobile phone production, agreed on Wednesday to buy mainframe software company CA for $44.50 per share in cash, months after President Donald Trump blocked its $23 billion mega-merger with Qualcomm Inc.
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Bits Special Section SAN FRANCISCO — The internet was created nearly 40 years ago by men — and a few women — who envisioned an "intergalactic network" where humans could pull data and computing resources from any mainframe in the world and in the process free up their minds from mundane and menial tasks.
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Oliver Wainwright, the architecture critic for The Guardian, noted its resemblance to a 1980s computer mainframe or Tron-like vision of the future, which calls to mind Fujimoto's own avowed aim to create a "primitive future" architecture — a forward-looking architecture that nonetheless boils down to a few basic tensions.
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Revenue fell 24.5 percent in the quarter to $20163 billion, led by an 22016 percent decline in software sales, a 216 percent drop in services revenue and a 218 percent decline in sales of mainframe computers, but rose after adjusting for the effects of the strong U.S. dollar on sales.
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The crux of Christensen's theory is that big, successful companies that neglect potential customers at the lower end of their markets (mainframe computers, in his famous example) are ripe for disruption from smaller, more efficient, more nimble competitors that can do almost as good a job more cheaply (like personal computers).
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In 1964, less than a few years after IBM had launched the first solid-state mainframe computer, "The Twilight Zone" ran a skit titled "The Brain Center at Whipple's" -- where Mr. Whipple, the owner of a vast manufacturing corporation replaced all his factory workers with a room-sized computing machine.
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She's tended to by a doctor (Juliette Binoche, a wonderful actress who seems slightly confused to be here) who both works for the corporation and protects Major from it, until a hacker (Michael Pitt) digs into Major's mainframe, learns who she is, and attempts to use her against the corporation and the state.
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Tasha Robinson, film & TV editor: For me, nothing in this film even comes close to being as funny as the line where a flunky casually tells villain Idris Elba that he's "hacked the mainframe of every major journalistic outfit" and fed them all a false story demonizing grumpy anti-heroes Hobbs and Shaw.
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When the average person thinks of hacking, they might picture a trenchcoat-wearing citizen in The Matrix, furiously pounding away at a keyboard in a darkened room, in attempt to "infiltrate the mainframe," only pausing to spout snarky one-liners into a headset mic and triumphantly exclaim, "I'm in!" when the job is done.
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It's not a coincidence that today's announcement comes after another one last winter at the CeBIT Technology Fair in Germany, where the company launched what it calls the first software defined mainframe and announced partnerships with Red Hat and Microsoft (who themselves announced a partnership around the same time to bring RHEL to Azure).
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There are notable exceptions, including a woman operating an IBM mainframe computer in 1961 and two women working on an aircraft during World War II. Indeed, Ada Lovelace, a 19th century mathematician, is considered to have written the instructions for the first computer program, but her legacy and accomplishments were overshadowed by those of men.
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"IBM failed to demonstrate that it's made a successful transition from the slow-growing basic mainframe and software business to the fast-growing cloud computing, cognitive, artificial intelligence areas that are so vital to restoring the company's revenue growth after 20 straight quarters — yes, 20 straight quarters — of declining sales," the "Mad Money " host said.
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Skin in the game Every major technological shift has created big opportunities for the few entrepreneurs who see it coming early — in the seventies, Apple and Microsoft made big bets that the PC would be a much bigger market than gigantic room-sized mainframes, while the mainframe industry decried the PC itself as a fad.
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Everybody in the industry has read Clayton Christensen and is cognizant of the cycle of disruption — the mainframe was disrupted by the PC, which was in turn disrupted by the smartphone — and how companies that are on top of the world one day can shrink into oblivion in a few short years (see Nokia and BlackBerry).
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To understand that all you have to do is look at the two other albums he recorded at the same time: The Piece Talks, an experimental rap record he released in April 2008 with Detroit rapper/producer Ta'Raach under the name C.R.A.C. and Johnson&Jonson, the raw raps and loops album he dropped in September 2008 with producer Mainframe.
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This is the part of the story where I build on the IBM PC analogy I hinted at above, and tell you that Defense Distributed's Ghost Gunner, along with its inevitable clones and successors, will kill dinosaurs like LMT Defense the way the PC and the cloud laid waste to the mainframe and microcomputer businesses of yesteryear.
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"There are a lot of products that do the request part, but there's nobody that's able to look across your entire data landscape, the hundreds of petabytes, and pick out the data in Salesforce, Workday, AWS, mainframe, and all these places you could have data on [an individual], and show how it's all tied together," Sirota explained.
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Analysts had expected some revenue growth in Q4 to come from sales of IBM's z14 mainframe computer, which happened throughout the entirety of the fourth quarter, and indeed IBM called that out as a highlight of its Systems segment, which produced $3.3 billion in revenue, up 32 percent and above the FactSet estimate of $169.123 billion, according to StreetAccount.
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Inspired by the story of a Flushing High School senior who a decade earlier traversed the entire 400-mile New York City subway system on a single 15-cent token, Mr. Samson and his college classmates harnessed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's embryonic mainframe computer in their race to reach every station and in record time.
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And besides, it's a whole lot cheaper too, because right now, the Mashable Shop has special deals on road bikes to help you get motivated to whip yourself up back into shape: Engineered with Chromoly mainframe and fork and Hutchinson Nitro II tires, this 16-speed road bike delivers a light and comfortable, as well as a smooth, seamless roll.
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Transition from augmenting "dumb" environments with standalone devices to integrated connected gadgets Transition from augmenting "dumb" environments with standalone devices to integrated connected gadgets If the end goal is to have a seamless programmable environment, the building itself should become the ultimate packaging for the IoT infrastructure, not standalone devices (just like a mainframe is hidden inside a computer or a phone).
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But what if the entire contents of your brain—your memories, beliefs, hopes, and dreams—could be scanned and uploaded onto a mainframe, so when You 1.0 finally does fall down a lift shaft or is killed by a friend, You 2.0 could be fed into a humanoid avatar and rolled out of an immortality factory to pick up where you left off?
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