IBM releases System z new focus on cloud computing and large data

"Tenkine Server channel April 17 News" Recently, IBM has released a series of new products for System z, which focus on cloud computing and large data markets. This includes the first system z based integrated systems IBM Enterprise Cloud System (IBM Enterprise Cloud system) and Hadoop products.

With the development of the mainframe in the past 50 years, many technological innovations have been developed to help the enterprises to adapt to the changing market demand. With large hosts capable of supporting up to 6,000 virtual machines in a single system, providing a secure multi-tenant environment and dynamically sharing resources across workloads, System Z has a unique advantage in the enterprise cloud infrastructure requirements for cloud service providers and dynamic private cloud deployments. Due to higher system efficiency and greater scalability, the total cost of Linux on System z cloud deployments can be reduced by up to 55% compared to the x86 equivalent cloud infrastructure.

Based on these advantages, IBM Enterprise Cloud system shipped automated Cloud Choreography (automated Cloud orchestration) and monitoring capabilities to enable customers to quickly deploy enterprise-class cloud services. Consolidating system z Hardware, IBM storage, and IBM Cloud management software into an IAAS solution will help it enterprises and cloud service providers provide differentiated service levels in critical business workload support. The quality of service delivered by these hosts also helps cloud infrastructure providers address many of the common security and downtime concerns associated with the cloud infrastructure.

In addition, IBM will work with Veristorm to launch the Zdoop software, providing the industry's first commercial hadoop for System Z Linux. Enables customers to perform various analysis based on Hadoop more quickly and securely without moving data away from the host. For mainframe-oriented flash storage, the next generation of flash storage on the IBM DS8870 delivers analytics insights up to 30 times times faster than HDD, helping businesses gain insight faster.

In addition, System z is provided with continuous integration solutions that reduce the application delivery cycle from months to weeks or days. Leverage new versions of IBM CICS Transaction Server for better mobility and cloud support. IBM WebSphere Liberty z/OS Connect scenarios are of concern in support of fast and secure access to Z/OS assets via the web, cloud, and mobile.

After IBM sold the x86 product line to Lenovo, the business center has shifted to the mainframe and its power product line. This new System Z highlights the IBM's modern host strategy. Chanda, chairman and chief executive officer of IBM Greater China, said the mainframe would be one of the key information system infrastructures underpinning future computing science. To this end, IBM will continue to strengthen the large-scale mainframe ecosystem construction, and increase technological innovation to meet the enterprise users in the cloud, large data analysis, mobile and security areas such as the latest application needs.