The January 14th, 2010 edition of The Economist has an interesting article about mainframe computers. The article is entitled Back in Fashion and provides some interesting insights into the status of mainframe technology and capabilities.
According to the article,
“IBM is also trying to attract new customers, particularly in fast-growing emerging markets. Without mainframes, India’s Housing Development Finance Corporation and the Bank of China in Hong Kong would have a hard time dealing with their explosive growth…”
The mainframe has evolved and adapted for many, many decades. Today, it combines the same stable, robust, secure platform that large organizations have depended upon for half-a-century, while also providing a highly scalable, manageable, and affordable platform for the development of new workloads (Linux, Java, Websphere, DB2, Oracle, etc.). And at a time when the benefits of virtualization are a dominant industry theme, the Z Series mainframe offers outstanding virtual capabilities.
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