Computing giant IBM has unveiled a series of new enterprise cloud offerings for the mainframe which, it says, will help enterprises and service providers reduce the cost of operations and rapidly deploy trusted cloud services with mainframe technology.
The announcement includes the first System z-based integrated system offering, the IBM Enterprise Cloud System.
According to the company, the new system provides an integrated platform, built on open standards, for organisations and service providers looking to rapidly build out a trusted cloud environment capable of supporting mission-critical workloads.
Additionally, it says, a new flexible utility pricing model being announced will provide service providers with the ability to pay for Linux-based mainframe cloud infrastructure over time based on compute consumption, rather than system capacity.
With the ability to support up to 6 000 virtual machines in a single system, provide a secure multi-tenant environment and dynamically share resources across workloads, the mainframe is uniquely positioned to meet the enterprise cloud infrastructure needs of cloud service providers and dynamic private cloud deployments, says IBM. Thanks to higher system efficiency and greater scalability, the total cost of Linux on System z cloud deployments can by up to 55%t less than comparable x86-based cloud infrastructure, it explains.
As the cloud market evolves to service an ever-larger share and type of IT workloads, IBM says enterprises are increasingly turning to the mainframe to provide the basis for their cloud deployments.
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