Comdisco Taps IBM Servers to Support its Availability and Business Continuity Service Offerings; Fourteen New IBM S/390 Servers Added to Address Customer's Growing Availability Needs.Business/Technology Editors ROSEMONT, Ill./SOMERS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2000 Comdisco, Inc. and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) today announced that Comdisco has invested more than $30 million for IBM S/390 servers to support the availability and continuity requirements of its customer base. Comdisco is installing 14 new IBM S/390 G6 enterprise servers in facilities across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , increasing its processing power by 450 percent. The acquisition is part of Comdisco's expanded commitment to help its customers build and maintain highly available IT infrastructures to support mission-critical business functions. The IBM S/390 G6 servers, equipped with IBM's innovative copper chips, complement this initiative, offering highly reliable and high-speed processing capacity. "Many of our customers rely on enterprise servers as the engines for running their businesses, from highly visible e-commerce and online transaction processing See transaction processing and OLCP. initiatives to enterprise-wide and back-office financial applications, and continuous availability is absolutely essential," said John Jackson John Jackson may refer to: Politics:
"Comdisco's continued investment in data center technology demonstrates the reliance that businesses place on e-business servers like IBM's S/390," said Peter McCaffrey, S/390 product marketing manager, Enterprise Server Group, IBM. "S/390 responds to the call of the Internet and enterprise applications with its industry leading scalability, security and availability." Comdisco provides a portfolio of continuous availability and global recovery solutions to help companies reduce the cost and risk of an interruption to their business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets . For example, during Hurricane Floyd This article is about the 1999 hurricane. For other storms of the same name, see Tropical Storm Floyd (disambiguation). Hurricane Floyd was the sixth named storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane in the 1999 Atlantic hurricane season. in September 1999, five Comdisco customers were forced to evacuate e·vac·u·ate v. 1. To empty or remove the contents of. 2. To excrete or discharge waste matter, especially of the bowels. their own locations and were able to quickly transfer critical applications and data onto IBM servers at Comdisco facilities, minimizing revenue loss and business disruption. Comdisco will use the new S/390 servers to support its overall availability services, including to provide complete standby systems that replicate a customer's own computing environment as well as for back-end support, such as instantaneous transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. and data capturing of e-business transactions. About Comdisco Comdisco (www.comdisco.com) provides global technology services to help its customers maximize technology functionality, predictability and availability, while freeing them from the complexity of managing their technology. The Rosemont (IL) company offers a complete suite of information technology services including business continuity, web availability, managed network services, and IT Control and Predictability Solutions SM. Through its subsidiary, Prism Communication Services Inc., Comdisco is developing a high-speed, always-on digital network, which will provide customers with leading-edge connectivity. Comdisco also offers equipment services to key vertical industries, including electronics, communications, laboratory & scientific, and industrial automation. Through its Ventures group, Comdisco is a leader in providing equipment leasing Equipment Leasing is a financing option to lease equipment for a certain amount of time. Leasing Benefits
About IBM S/390 enterprise servers IBM S/390 servers support the world's most successful businesses and organizations by providing industry-leading levels of scalability, availability and security for large-scale enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. needs. The S/390 platform is a leader in running multiple, diverse, mission-critical workloads and applications, including e-business, financial and administrative, business intelligence and enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. . IBM news releases and fact sheets are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.ibm.com. S/390 news releases and fact sheets also are available on http://www.ibm.com/servers and http://www.s390.ibm.com IBM and S/390 are trademarks or registered trademarks of the IBM Corporation. All others are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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