During the first three months of this year grew server revenue in Gartner’s so-called “other” category, which mainly consists of mainframe computers, by about 95 percent. Followed by an increase in the second quarter by just over 8 percent. Which was still better than the server market as a whole.
This course no coincidence. In January, IBM launched the Z13, the company’s first new mainframe computer in almost three years. So it is no wonder that sales received a boost, but it has been more popular than expected to upgrade.
- There are two ways to look at this increase. Is it because it is difficult for companies to migrate? Or is it that they get enough support, and new functionality to stay? The truth is probably a mixture, said Gartner analyst Adrian O’Connell.
After IBM sold its mainstream servers to Lenovo, it seems that the mainframe has received more attention. It is still unsurpassed in terms of availability, scalability and performance, according to IBM’s Uno Bengtsson, senior specialist on System z.
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Recently, the company followed up the Z13 launch a broader Linux venture that includes mainframe computers Emperor and Rockhopper, software and Open Mainframe Project.
Part of this initiative is, for example, the ability to run Apache Spark, Node.js, MongoDB, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, President and Docker on a mainframe. Suse has implemented support for the hypervisor KVM and a customized version of Ubuntu Linux from Canonical is also on the way.
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Although sales growth for the mainframe got a bit as a surprise, do not affect each server market as a whole is on the way thanks mainly American cloud providers to build out their infrastructure, according to Adrian O’Connell.
X86-based servers strengthened its dominant position to the detriment of mainly RISC and Itanium-based products. During the second quarter the number of selling x86 servers with just over 8 percent and sales rose by 9 percent. While shipments of RISC and Itanium-based servers fell by nearly 19 percent.
Last year celebrated the IBM 50th anniversary for the category of computers known as mainframes, also sold x86 servers to Lenovo for the production of processors transferred to Globalfoundries.
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