IBM admits mainframes need to be modernized and will use AI to do the job

IBM touts its Z series mainframes as the most reliable and cost-effective environments for certain workloads, but on Monday also acknowledged that the platform can drift towards hard-to-manage complexity that reduces resilience and therefore needs some help from AI. Big Blue admitted that not all mainframe estates exist in a state of perfect bliss in a Statement of Direction for a forthcoming product called “IBM Z Atlas” that the document describes as “an AI-native solution that uses system inte