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http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23592.wss

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the System z10 mainframe to help clients create a new enterprise data center. The system z10 is designed from the ground up to help dramatically increase data center efficiency by significantly improving performance and reducing power, cooling costs, and floor space requirements. It offers unmatched levels of security and automates the management and tracking of IT resources to respond to ever-changing business conditions.

In addition to the z10, IBM also announced it has invested $300 million in architects, technical skills, as well as design and benchmarking centers to help clients transform to a new enterprise data center. Qualified clients can receive free assessment services to prioritize and take action to implement a more efficient, shared and dynamic IT infrastructure.

IBM’s next-generation, 64-processor mainframe, which uses Quad-Core technology, is built from the start to be shared, offering greater performance over virtualized x86 servers to support hundreds to hundreds of millions of users.*1

The mainframe is still in demand and as we consolidate the IT, it will be interesting to see if they become more popular as we are able to abstract the user from the application, from the IT. By that I mean as we break the workload down, move to a service based IT infrastructure – where your application runs, what it’s running on an x86 Linux running on a DL380 or a mainframe is marginal as long as it works, it meets your high availability needs and has the ability to scale to your business requirements.

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