IBM PureSystems – A Bit Of Cloud For Mainframes?
October 16, 2012
Grazed from TechWeekEurope. Author: Peter Judge.
Six months ago, IBM launched PureSystems, new-wave mainframes which combine RISC and Intel servers and promise a new and simpler way to develop enterprise applications. But since that initial fanfare,we have heard almost nothing about the supposedly revolutionary servers.
That doesn’t mean nothing is happening, though, says IBM senior server consultant IBM Tikiri Wanduragala. He grabbed TechWeekEurope last month, to tell us that PureSystems is a response to commodity cloud computing. It might take time to mature, but it is on track. The meeting took place in the run-up to the announcement of new PureSystems tailored for Big Data analytics…
“PureSystems is a radical cheapening and simplification of what we have traditionally called mainframes,” said Wandaragula. By uniting the IBM server ranges in one box, it can reduce energy and simplify management. But the software side is far more important. Wandaragala pitches it as the arrival of “cloud-style” methods in the old and ultra-traditional world of mainframes. If he’s right, then PureSystems could preserve mainframes against a seemingly inexorable move away from older styles of computing…
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