Nice Mainframe, How The Hell Do I Turn It On?

Mainframes are still popular. There, we said it. Do you feel better? Some still argue that mainframes are the ‘original cloud’ and that the virtualization technologies that we champion today were all born on the mainframe – actually, there’s a lot of truth in that. IBM is still churning out its hulking z13 mainframe series and these are highly prized in some banking transaction processing applications.