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Research and Markets: Examine the State of the Mainframe
DUBLIN, Ireland-(Business Wire)-March 14, 2008 - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c86047) has announced the addition of "The State Of The Mainframe "to their offering.
IBM's mainframe technology has been referred to as a legacy platform that was on its last legs and no longer a strategic platform. Challenged by more commodity solutions utilizing x86/x64 or RISC technologies, the longevity of the mainframe has long been forecasted to be near its end. However, the realities of large investments in core application deployments on the platform and its long-heralded reliability, availability, serviceability, security, backwards software compatibility, efficient environmentals and virtualization capability, have rendered this prognostication moot. Moreover, mainframe MIPS growth is averaging around 20% per year and large mainframe-centric enterprises have been consistently averaging 35%-plus MIPS growth. The negative growth is primarily the result of the replacement of smaller mainframe systems (less than 500 MIPS) with, for the most part, x86/x64-based solutions and new applications. Realizing this trend and the continued competitive attack on programs in this lower segment of the mainframe market, IBM has been actively taking steps to stem the tide of this defection and is committing large resources to apply the compelling economics of high-end mainframe users (1,000 MIPS plus) to the lower end of the mainframe market. Overall there has, and will continue to be, renewed interest in mainframe solutions as these economics play out with creative pricing and more new functions and applications.
Topics Covered:
The reality
IBM's ongoing mainframe investments
Mainframe considerations and benefits
Challenges
For more information, visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c86047
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