On Thursday the tech giant announced a new line of mainframes it calls the zEnterprise.
And those cheap boxes increasingly rival the more expensive Sun servers and IBM mainframes.
Much of the software infrastructure for IBM mainframes was developed in a collaborative model.
The Net has long been a network of networks, linking desktop computers, servers and mainframes.
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Cloud-computing refers to the utilization of digital resources through the Internet, as opposed to holding data in in-house mainframes.
But in those days, computers were hulking mainframes and there were far fewer of them tethered together.
It invested heavily in technology that offers more compatibility than anyone else's among open systems and mainframes.
Because mainframes are sold bundled with software, the really important transaction is the sale of the hardware.
Linux now runs on millions of devices from handhelds to mainframes, and has attracted wide industry support.
For parallels, hark back to what happened when TV sets replaced radios in homes or when PCs replaced mainframes in offices.
The first PCs were much less capable than mini-computers and mainframes that were already on the market at the time.
It invested heavily in technology that offers more compatibility than anyone else's among open systems, mainframes and other computer systems.
The large, complex and expensive mainframes of the 1950s and 1960s gave way to the personal computer in the 1980s.
Maybe we should just go back to the kinder and gentler days of three-martini lunches and personnel tethered to mainframes.
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Pre-Gerstner IBM kept adding key account sales people in hopes of keeping IT departments from switching out of mainframes to PCs.
While tablets are a narrower slice of the market today than mainframes were in the 1980s, it is the growth segment.
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Recall how the PC made computing available to small businesses and department managers, previously available only to corporations that could afford mainframes.
Michael Dell now has his eye on clustering software that links racks of Linux servers into teams that mimic the performance of mainframes.
Corporations have been slow to refresh their mainframes since the recovery began, but many expect a refresh cycle to begin later this year.
And appears to entirely leave out all of the mainframes (which admittedly would be very small in number), Sparcstations and all the rest.
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For those who say the iPod is in too narrow a niche to be a valid example, remember IBM and its dominance of mainframes.
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At the high end the Power systems come with 32 sockets, 256 cores and 4 threads per core, matching mainframes in their processing capacity.
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PCs, of course, swept through the workplace and in only a decade most mainframes, and their high cost, air conditioned data centers, were gone.
The engineers' job is to standardize the latest court cases, news articles, scientific journal writeups and bankruptcy filings for the company's giant mainframes to catch.
And those cheap boxes increasingly rival more expensive Sun servers and IBM mainframes with each new version of Microsoft's operating system or Linux clustering software.
Often firms continue to run outdated programs on mainframes because they IT leaders think the legacy systems are too complex and too costly to touch.
Its three areas of focus are mainframes, enterprise solutions and services.
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