It's not your father's mainframe anymore
If you started out with a small server farm and now have a big one, you know that such things are complex, high-maintenance, and costly in terms of wiring and power.
IBM would like to offer you a solution that is totally retro. Goodbye, server farms; hello (again), Big Iron. Yep, IBM’s answer is the mainframe, but in a rather different package than your father’s corporate-data processing monster was.
The package is IBM’s zSeries mainframes -- the direct descendent of the S/390 line -- which runs Linux on top of the mainframe’s native 64-bit operating system, z/OS. The product is called Linux for zSeries.
But this incarnation of Linux actually runs multiple copies of the freeware operating system in separate virtual machines, optimizes performance by load-balancing each instance, and offers Web-based setup and management.
MySAP’s mySAP.com will be the first enterprise-scale app for the system and Siebel has shown some interest in making its apps available.
This is an intriguing concept, and one that should appeal especially to those corporations with high-volume, transaction-based business models.
» posted by ITworld staff
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