IBM Mainframe – The Middle-Aged Workhorse Still Setting The StandardsWith over 40 years of history, it is no wonder that the Mainframe continues to set the standard for computing technology with even IBM competitors using the mainframe as their benchmark:
“Fujitsu debuts powerful next generation of entry level servers with Mainframe-like performance and reliability”
“Sun’s high-end servers and storage systems combine the power of Mainframe-like technology with the availability, scalability, and manageability you need to harness the benefits of rehosting.”
“(HP’s)…solution has the ability to deliver Mainframe-like quality of service with a more agile, cost effective platform.”
Far from being a dinosaur on the brink of extinction, the Mainframe continues to deliver industry leading reliability, security and performance to its users offering 99.999% uptime.
Think about 99% uptime over the course of a year. It sounds good until you realize that means 87.6 hours (nearly 4 days) of outage!
IBM, through its mainframe, offers five 9’s availability
How does it do it?
With more than 40 years of experience, the Mainframe has been doing for a long time what seems to be “new technologies” on other platforms. For example, logical partitioning has been a mainframe feature for a long time. In the development of the mainframe, hardware, software, storage and network are designed for maximum application availability.
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