Today IBM is pioneering a new age of mainframes with the announcement of the zEnterprise mainframe server. The zEnterprise system, the most powerful and energy-efficient mainframe to date, will be the first mainframe of its kind with the ability to be managed as a single system.
The zEnterprise mainframe represents an investment of more than $1.5 billion by IBM R&D and more than three years of collaboration with some of IBM’s top clients.
The motivations that started development of the zEnterprise mainframe server was to create a simple mainframe system that can work seamlessly and manage workloads over various systems as one. Using IBM system software known as the “Unified Resource Manager,” some 100,000 servers can be managed as a single system on a zEnterprise mainframe.
The zEnterprise system, or “zEnterprise 196,” contains 96 of the world’s most powerful microprocessors running at 5.2Ghz, able to executing more than 50 billion (BIPs) instructions per second. Tom Rosamilia, General Manager, IBM Power and z Systems, stated, “The new mainframe is the fastest enterprise server in the world and represents a giant leap forward in performance.”
With the zEnterprise mainframe, IBM hopes to present a new and simplified way to manage mainframe systems for corporations. Its simple integration of other mainframe systems and scalability may just be what growing IT departments have been waiting for.
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