IBM launches System z9 Business Class mainframe in India

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Bangalore, June 20 (UNI) IT bellwether IBM today launched a new system z9 Business Class mainframe designed to tackle the coming wave of automated Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implications, high expectation of data security and rapidly expanding emerging markets.

Speaking to newspersons after the launch, Mr Jim Stalling, General Manager, System z, IBM systems and Technology Group, said ''The System z9 Business Class expands access to System z9 platform, the world's most secure mainframe computer. In India and other emerging markets, firms are rapidly deploying mainframe technology needed to achieve the scale and reliability required to keep pace in a globally integrated economy.'' The new mainframe was expected to play a big role in healthcare and retail, as it was increasingly used to process sensitive data that was progressively more shared, especially in an emerging market such as India, he added.

Mr Stalling said System z Business Class, priced under 100,000 US Dollars, excluding excise duty, would offer customers substantial cost savings as it carried power of hundreds of virtual servers with simplicity of a single physical system.

Explaining the speciality engine, he said ''This is a speciality engine that runs eligible database workloads that is designed to help free-up general computing capacity and lower software costs.'' ''Designed with small and medium sized businesses in mind, IBM will be looking at, apart from emerging businesses, the governmental agencies which offered great potential as India emerged as the fastest growing economy. Similar thrust is being given in emerging markets like Russia and Brazil,'' he added.

IBM India, Systems and Technology Group Director Alok Ohrie said the company's efforts was to modernise corporate and government IT infrastructures and System z could uniquely serve this purpose.

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