Increasing support for open standards is also driving demand for mainframes, he said. "The mainframe has been completely redesigned and is as modern--[if not] more modern--than any other platform out there," Pape said.
Mainframe critical for BI
In a recent e-mail note, Madan Sheina, senior analyst at Ovum, said Cognos' recent move to put business intelligence (BI) software on the IBM System z mainframe running Linux, indicates that mainframes are far from being legacy systems.
"Trusty mainframes are alive and kicking, and remain critical components of a company's IT infrastructure, especially for mission-critical high-volume transactional environments like financial services, where the mainframe has proven itself to be a trusted platform for housing large amounts of data in a secure and centrally managed environment," said Sheina.
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