IBM ESERVER Z900, REINVENTED MAINFRAME, SHIPPED TO GLOBAL CUSTOMERS ON SCHEDULE.IBM's new eServer z900, the reinvented mainframe, began shipping to customers around the world last week, on schedule. Many customers, including financial institutions and management consulting firms List of Management Consulting Firms 1. McKinsey & Company 2. Marakon Associates 3. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) 4. A.T. Kearney 5. Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) 6. Monitor Group 7. Bain & Company 8. Roland Berger , initially plan to run benchmarking and application tests on the z900, including running Linux on some of the mainframe's partitions. Thousands of Linux applications will run on the z900, making adding new e-business workloads to the platform easier and faster. The system's advanced networking capabilities along with its ability to dynamically shift resources automatically to the applications that need them and enhanced data compression data compression Process of reducing the amount of data needed for storage or transmission of a given piece of information (text, graphics, video, sound, etc.), typically by use of encoding techniques. functions make the z900 attractive to businesses. The IBM eServer This article is about the IBM family of computer servers. For the open access electronic text archive, see EServer.org. IBM eServer was a family of computer servers from IBM Corporation. z900, announced in October 2000, is the first mainframe built from scratch with e-business as its primary function. The reinvented mainframe can be self-managing, offers customers the ability to add capacity in seconds and is designed for high speed connectivity to the network and storage systems. The system allows customers to push performance and connectivity to the outer limits without any concessions to reliability and security. The ability to run thousands of virtual servers within one physical box makes the z900 the ideal platform for e-business-intensive operations like application service providers, Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. and technology hosting companies. These types of companies must be equipped to manage and keep separate and secure their own customers' individual workloads and requirements. In the past, this has required a large number of servers and a huge investment in real estate. Now, however, these customers can save by using one z900 to do the same job, replacing a football field full of Sun or HP servers. Customers will be able to take full advantage of the z900 with IBM's new 64-bit operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , z/OS, and new software pricing model. Software fees can be based on need rather than total system capacity, providing customers the flexibility to pay for what they use in an e-business world that is characterized char·ac·ter·ize tr.v. character·ized, character·iz·ing, character·iz·es 1. To describe the qualities or peculiarities of: characterized the warden as ruthless. 2. by highly volatile swings in demand. Customers making the transition from the 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) S/390 G5 or G6 may save up to thousands of dollars per month in software fees, depending on the configuration. The 64-bit z/OS operating system will be available March 31, 2001. |
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