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New mainframe z10 introduced
Now that was different. I woke up this morning and opened up
my laptop. There, on the front of my screen is the Yahoo messenger. The top
story is “IBM
rolls out new Mainframe”. That was
pretty cool.
And so is this new server. The z10 mainframe continues the
trend to reduce the amount of electricity and cooling per mip. And it’s got a
tremendous amount of new capacity. Now a customer can get 64 engines vs. the 54
engines that are available on the z9 server. With its faster engines, the
overall capacity of the z10 server is 50% larger than its predecessor.
A New York Times
article includes comments from Hannaford Bros and Nationwide Insurance. Nationwide
has consolidated 1300 applications across 480 virtual servers running Linux for
System z. They believe they’ll save over $15 million dollars over three years
and are running ahead of schedule.
That brings to mind the technology dividend that comes with
the System z architecture. If you’d purchased any of the specialty engines,
IFL, zAAP or zIIP, on previous System z servers, you’ll get the same number of z10
engines plus the extra capacity of this first in the industry quadcore
processors at no additional charge. And this upgrade will be far easier to
handle than if you were operating “scale out” x86 servers. Typically, a
mainframe gets upgraded in a matter of hours. Hundreds of x86 servers being “technology
refreshed” would take weeks or months and a tremendous amount of additional
power and floor space to be refreshed. That would take a tremendous amount of
labor to accomplish to upgrade those x86 servers when compared to the z10
servers as well. Oh, and did I mention
that you’d be paying for each of those server images? Maybe that’s a new metric
to consider…instead of TCO, look at the Total Cost of Upgrade.
So let’s go back to the customer scenarios and “discover” a new mantra for the mainframe. Customers are now taking applications and databases that are operating on separate servers and re-hosting them on the mainframe. Once running on the mainframe, the applications and databases take advantage of the reduced floor space, improved mean time to failure, reduced security intrusion points, capacity on demand and the resiliency of the mainframe. In essence, it becomes the same code in a different container provides a superior operations environment. That’s where the real savings come from. That’s a new mantra when considering the IBM System z z10 mainframe server. Add some new work to an existing mainframe and save.
| by JimPorell | February 26, 2008 in Innovation Permalink |
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