mainframes
Canonical Extends Reach of MicroK8s
Canonical has updated its lightweight distribution of Kubernetes, known as MicroK8s, to add support for version 1.22 of Kubernetes in addition to making available in beta a version that now runs on ...
IBM Boosts Container Performance on z/OS Mainframes
IBM has enhanced z/OS Container Extensions (zCX) to make them both easier and faster as part of an effort to make it simpler to modernize z/OS-based mainframe environments. The extension to z/OS ...
IBM Shows Instances of COBOL Running Natively on Kubernetes
IBM has launched a research and development project through which applications developed in COBOL are able to run natively on Kubernetes clusters. JJ Ashgar, developer advocate for IBM, says at the moment ...
IBM Leverages Containers to Advance DevOps on Mainframes
IBM has extended its effort to make the mainframe just another DevOps platform to deploy code with the launch of Wazi for Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces, a browser-based tool that can now ...
IBM Brings Red Hat Container Platform to Mainframes
IBM this week announced that the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is now available on the distribution of Linux that IBM makes available on mainframes. Barry Baker, vice president of IBM Z ...
IBM Advances Mainframe Container Strategy
IBM, as part of a larger strategy to make it possible to run cloud-native applications on mainframes, this week announced IBM z/OS Container Extensions, which makes it possible to run applications built ...
Mainframes and Docker Containers: Uses and Limitations
You can run Docker containers on mainframes. But should you? That’s a question that more and more mainframe-equipped organizations are bound to be asking following Docker’s recent announcement of Enterprise Edition support ...
