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1964-2004: Forty years of value and innovation
Business and technology came to a critical crossroads in 1964. That was the year the revolutionary System/360™ family of compatible processors forged a new path to help our customers grow and prosper. |
| The System/360 and its descendents succeeded beyond the dreams of its designers and builders. It changed the fortunes of our customers and of IBM. To this day it carries an extraordinary portion of the world's computing work on its back. |
| Now, in a networked economy, we've arrived at another critical intersection. This time it's on demand computing that offers a new path for growth and IBM is working even more closely with our clients to help them solve their problems. |
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 Just as in 1964, we're concentrating all the resources of IBM: this time to deliver to our clients, in every type of industry and in every part of the world, the power and potential of on demand computing. |
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| IBM technology is designed to provide the competitive edge for this new era. Our all-consuming drive: to apply this technology, together with industry-specific consulting, services and solutions, in order to create sustainable and measurable business value for our clients. |
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| April 2004: IBM announces the new IBM eServer zSeries® 890. The eServer z890 has new options to help better manage software costs and innovative technologies designed to deliver a streamlined, more responsive infrastructure. The System/360's tradition of encompassing every user's every need is continued in the z890, with advantages for medium-sized enterprises that include: |
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Increased granularity - to help control costs with smaller increments of growth. |
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Pioneering technology - so you can dynamically allocate workloads and capacity as needed. |
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Advanced application flexibility - with the ability to run up to hundreds of virtual Linux servers simultaneously. |
| The IBM eServer zSeries 990 Enhancements and the eServer zSeries Application Assist Processor are also announced. |
| The z990 Enhancements build on the z990 tradition of innovation and value with enhancements that further help simplify complex IT infrastructures. |
| The zSeries Application Assist Processor (U.S.) (zAAP) provides a cost-effective, specialised Java execution environment that helps lower the overall cost of computing for WebSphere® Application Server and other Java™ technology-based applications. |
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| 2004: Fidelity Information Services leverages the power of zSeries models 800, 900 and 990 to develop a next-generation financial services technology and banking components that any size institution can use to support real-time, around the clock, on demand mortgage, deposit and lending operations. |
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2003: IBM announces the eServer zSeries 990, the world's most sophisticated server and the new flagship of the eServer family. It provides a balanced, highly secure foundation for dynamically balancing critical applications and is the result of a four-year, more than $1 billion investment. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) transactions per second increase to 11,000 on a z990 running z/OS 1.4.*
*(The SSL rate was achieved with a z990 with 16 processors and 6 PCICA features (12 accelerator cards.) These measurements are examples of the maximum transactions/second achieved in a lab environment with no other processing occurring and do not represent actual field measurements. Details available upon request.) |
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| 2003: 100 additional new Linux® on zSeries applications are introduced including S2 Systems' OpeN/2®, Informix®, Lotus® Domino™, and BEA™ Tuxedo™. Linux on zSeries (U.S.) is the ideal foundation for on demand operating environments. |
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| 2003: IBM introduces the Mainframe Charter. The Mainframe Charter articulates IBM's commitment to deliver innovative solutions, expand zSeries value, and foster a zSeries community in order to meet customers' on demand business requirements. |
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| 2002: IBM introduces the eServer z800, a lower-priced, entry-class mainframe that fundamentally changes the economics of mainframe computing. With this move, IBM delivers for the first time advanced Parallel Sysplex clustering technology to entry-class mainframe customers. |
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| 2002: With z/OS 1.4, the mainframe operating system sets a new record of 7,000 Secure Socket Layer transactions per second, 60% faster than its predecessor. This allows companies to respond more rapidly to e-commerce customers in a highly secure environment. |
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| 2000: IBM unveils the IBM eServer zSeries 900, the first IBM mainframe built from the ground up with e-business as its primary function. The zSeries mainframe (U.S.) is built to handle the unpredictable demands of e-business, allowing thousands of servers to operate within one box. IBM also introduces z/OS®, a new 64-bit operating system. |
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