Estimates are that about 75 percent of all business data worldwide still resides on mainframes and 85 percent of all business transactions are carried out on mainframes.
The mainframe world is driven by increased usage of digital services that constitute more and more of the world economy. These services are more often than not run by mainframes in a central data center setting. These demands are subject to the fluctuations of web-driven demand and therefore need the strengths that only the mainframe can deliver: reliability, availability and scalability all wrapped in the most secure computing environment.
The mainframe is a self-contained processing center, powerful enough to process the largest and most diverse workloads in one secure “footprint.” The mainframe is also just as effective when implemented as the primary server in a corporation’s distributed server farm.
