Datamation: Server Hardware Product of the Year 2001 (IBM z900)
Feb 20, 2002, 19:35 (3 Talkback[s])
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"Senior IT executives are looking to solve problems
beyond simply maintaining legacy applications, says Giga
Information Group analyst David Mastrobattista. Many believe that
the IBM zSeries 900 can reduce their total cost-of-ownership
through server farm consolidation even as it ushers in the next
wave of Linux-based enterprise computing.
"IBM was the big winner because they already had the technology
in place and were able to deliver in quantity," he says. Indeed,
IBM has sold over 1,000 of its zSeries 900 --each worth well over
$1 million-- since the product's rollout last year. The company has
seen five consecutive quarters of double-digit growth in mainframe
sales.
Even more surprising than the number of MIPS (millions of
instructions per second) shipped, says Mastrobattista, is the fact
that 60-65 percent of them were for non-traditional workloads such
as Linux-based server farm consolidation and large-scale e-mail and
messaging deployments."
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