Mainframes are a critical element for new technologies like AI and blockchain

The death of the mainframe is something that's been widely predicted since the 1990s, but these big guns of the computing world stubbornly refuse to succumb. New research carried out by Forrester for hybrid services provider Ensono and IT consultancy Wipro shows that 50 percent of organizations will continue with and increase mainframe use in the next two years versus just five percent planning to decrease or remove mainframe activity. Interestingly the mainframe is seen as an important element of modern technologies like AI and Blockchain. While traditional applications and workloads -- ERP (48 percent), finance and accounting (45 percent),… [Continue Reading]