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Mainframe for the masses?

April 28th, 2006

Yesterday on April 27 IBM announced a new mainframe for small and medium sized businesses called the IBM System z9 Business Class.

From the press release:
"IBM today launched a new System z9 Business Class mainframe with pricing starting at around $100,000 and designed to tackle the critical computing challenges of our time: the coming wave of automated Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), new heightened expectations for data security and the rapid expansion of emerging markets."

The mainframe is very useful for virtualization - as mentioned in the press release: "one System z9 Business Class system might handle the workload of up to hundreds of distributed servers based on Unix or x86 class systems."

eWeek.com has an article on the announcement [via the Mainframe blog].

I have previously blogged about running Linux on the mainframe.

Update: a draft Redbook called "IBM System z9 Business Class Technical Introduction" is available.

Update 2: IBM Eye has also blogged about the announcement.

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