Re: IBM Spells Out Mainframe Strategy
From: William M. Klein (wmklein_at_nospam.netcom.com)
Date: 10/08/04
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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 20:19:10 GMT
FYI - just posted to the IBM-MAIN list. (Having read it, I don't know how
useful or accurate it is, but I thought some in CLC might be interested)
-- Bill Klein wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com "Ed Gould" <edgould@ibm-main.lst> wrote in message news:BD8C478F.73760%edgould@ameritech.net... > Technology: Systems Software > Friday 8 October 2004 > IBM spells out mainframe strategy > > IBM has laid out a new road map for its mainframe computing platform, which > over the next year will include adoption of the Common Information Model > (CIM) standard allowing different systems to exchange information. > > David Mastrobattista, marketing manager for the IBM zSeries mainframe, said > the goal is to extend the capabilities of the mainframe in a heterogeneous > enterprise environment. > > IBM also announced it will develop a 64-bit version of its z/Transaction > Processing Facility on Linux, a mainframe operating system now used in the > travel, finance and public-sector markets. > > The move to Linux and 64-bit, which should be available by the third quarter > of next year, will roughly double transaction processing to 25,000 > transactions per second. > > CIM is a standards effort that has been undertaken by Distributed Management > Task Force. The taskforce is a broad supplier consortium that includes IBM, > Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and Intel. > > The road map envisions the spread of mainframe capabilities throughout an > enterprise. > > Those capabilities include IBM's Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex > (GDPS), a clustering technology for dynamically managing and mirroring > critical storage, processor and network resources and for extending the > technology to the Linux environment. Ultimately, IBM wants to make it > possible for other platforms to use GDPS capabilities. > > One zSeries user, Paul Mercurio, the senior vice-president and chief > information officer at Mobil Travel Guide, said IBM's overall goal appears > to make sense. > > "I think it's inevitable" that if the mainframe is going to survive as a > platform, it must "be part of an overall environment", said Mercurio. > Mainframes "can handle a lot of work dependably, and that's why people buy > them". > > Mercurio, who is running Linux on his zSeries, said he believes most > companies have plans to migrate to an open software environment, even if > it's running on a mainframe. > > Gordon Haff, an analyst at Illuminata, said the message IBM is trying to > send is that the "mainframe is still the best at doing certain types of > things". > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to listserv@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
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