Sixty years on, the mainframe turns hybrid
The mainframe provides companies with exactly the computational power and stability they need to modernise infrastructure and benefit from emerging technologies.
01 March 2025
In 2024, the mainframe turned 60. Mainframes are used by 71% of the world’s Fortune 500 companies, according to IBM, and handle 90% of credit card transactions. They are used by 44 of the top 50 banks globally, carry 68% of the world’s IT production workloads, and are accountable for 6% of IT expenditure.
Forrester has said that the mainframe is only going to gain momentum over the next two years; its ‘State of Mainframes Global, 2024’ report said that 54% of respondents were going to expand their mainframe use cases. Only 15% were planning on reducing their reliance on this technology.
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