New Choice in Mainframe Computing

After 40 years on the corporate computing scene, the mainframe computer today remains the foundation of corporate data and applications. And, with steady increases in e-commerce and online transactions, the world's reliance on the mainframe is growing. It is estimated 60% of the world's mission-critical data today is managed on mainframe systems. According to industry figures, the growing global market for mainframe computers reached nearly $5 billion in 2004.

Everyday, CIOs and IT managers in enterprise datacenters balance support for legacy mainframe platforms against the need to make strategic investments in new technologies that provide increased business agility and cost efficiency. Resources are aligned to meet service level agreements; and, system integration projects are weighed against complex and time consuming migration efforts. The mainframe plays a critical role in these decisions.

Additionally, moving forward, the mainframe is ideally suited as the enterprise server solution in various companies' and analysts' visions of utility-like computing. However, with the exit from the market of all compatible mainframe computer providers in 2000, only a single provider of z/OS systems remains. This has left customers with no hardware alternatives to further maximize an operating system that approximately controls 60% of today's corporate data.

Now, PSI offers these customers a new choice that significantly reduces risk and provides investment protection: a new generation mainframe computer designed specifically to meet the most pressing needs of today's heterogeneous enterprise datacenters. The PSI systems provide enterprise computing customers the flexibility to share virtual enterprise resources across a common, industry standard system.