mainframe

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That makes it unlikely that customers will move away from using its mainframes toward decentralized platforms—a potential shift known as mainframe disintermediation—over the next several years.

From Barron's

In his view, although alternatives have been available for decades, clients are sticking with mainframe for a host of reasons: reliability and speed advantages, better cost efficiency at scale, and security such as quantum-safe encryption.

From Barron's

“The idea of shifting off of mainframe is not a new concept,” he said in a note to clients.

From MarketWatch

The company wrote a blog post detailing how its Claude Code tool can modernize COBOL—computer programming language used on IBM mainframes.

From Barron's

She went to her computer and wrote some code, walked a set of punch cards to the mainframe in another building, and waited while it slugged through the calculations.

From Literature