z4Live

The future does run on System z®, and with today's introduction of new features for the storage area network (SAN), we are delivering faster access to your data with significantly increased performance and a link data rate of 8 gigabits per second (Gbps) for the System z10 Enterprise Class (z10 EC) and System z10 Business Class (z10 BC) servers.

In the past, saving money by deferring upgrades during a recession has been the norm. Recessions mean lower demand, which often translates to a focus on cost savings and a slowing in the rate of product innovation and upgrade at both the business and IT levels. Vendors have often sought to sell upgrades as boosts to scalability, which is not needed in times of lower demand.

There are ten strong reasons why mainframe architecture is ideal for service-oriented data center environments.

As IT seeks to cut costs in the face of declining budgets by every means possible, the mainframe now appears to be a likely source of cost savings and a likely target of platform cutting. It's been a long-standing idea that the mainframe is costly, and with enterprise apps more easy to migrate, deep-sixing a mainframe or two is easier than ever. On the contrary, over the last three years, many users have found that, in many situations migrating applications to the mainframe is a source of total cost of ownership (TCO) savings of up to 50%. So in this era of stringent cost cutting, which strategy should IT employ: move more apps onto the mainframe or move all apps off it? The answer is, of course, that it depends.