IBM set to make double splash
IBM set to make double splash
Oct 08, 2004: IBM has outlined a strategy around its mainframe computing platform aimed at leveraging the mainframe's strengths to help customers live up to IBM's slogan of becoming "on demand" businesses, and is also reportedly set to announce a new series of disk subsystems to help users manage increasing levels of unstructured data.
"Over the past 40 years, we've witnessed industries evolve from a few transactions per week to millions of transactions per second," said Erich Clementi, general manager, IBM eServer zSeries. "Today, businesses are designing infrastructures intended for the next 20 years, and we are teaming with them to build these global on demand computing fabrics that link tens of thousands of users across open infrastructures, and extending datacenter-level security to the edges of their vast network."
"By offering Measured Workload Pricing for our management solutions on IBM eServer zSeries, Computer Associates is offering IT organisations greater flexibility in aligning technology spending with evolving business needs," said Mark Combs, senior vice president of corporate pricing at CA. "This will enable our customers to maximise their data centre investments and fully leverage the power of their mainframe resources on an on-demand basis."
Next week, IBM is expected to announce two new disk subsystems, the DS6000 and the DS8000, with the latter employing virtualisation technology found within IBM's Power 5 servers.
The DS6000 will be pitched at mid level enterprises, with the DS8000 primed for the high end of town. The releases follow closely on from the release by HDS of TagmaStore, which boasts impressive virtualisation capabilities.
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