IBM Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Mainframes, Unveils Cloud Services
April 8, 2014
Grazed from TopTechNews. Author: Barry Levine.
This week IBM is celebrating the 50th anniversary of System/360 mainframes by announcing new cloud services for businesses. The new services include the first System z-based integrated system for the cloud, called the Enterprise Cloud System. The System/360 mainframe, first shown on April 7, 1964 — when Lyndon B. Johnson was president — was the first system whose processors could be upgraded while keeping the same software and peripherals.
The term "main frame" came from older equipment where extras were added to frames, as well as from the main frame telephone exchange that housed incoming lines. The announcements also include a pricing model where service providers can pay for mainframe cloud infrastructure based on computing load consumed…
When used in a cloud environment, IBM has estimated that System z mainframes, the descendants of System 360, run Linux at about half the cost of x86-based cloud environments…
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