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To: Gus who wrote (27)	8/16/2000 1:53:19 PM
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One key driver for ESCON/FICON and Fibre Channel Directors sales. S/390 readied for role as super e-commerce server By JOHN RIBEIRO IDG News Service, 08/16/00 Positioned as a "super server" platform that can consolidate all the servers an organization needs to run an Internet-based business, IBM's next-generation S/390 mainframe will extend self- configuration and self-repair capabilities to Linux virtual servers. Scheduled for launch in the last quarter of this year, the new mainframe will outperform the current S/390 G6 by about 50% because it packs more and faster processors than the G6, according to Gururaj Rao, IBM fellow and S/390 chief engineer. The new mainframe is unlikely to be called the S/390 G7 in line with IBM's current naming scheme for the S/390 because of the significant architectural changes in the new mainframe, he adds. IBM aims to extend mainframe availability and reliability to e-business by supporting virtual Linux servers natively on S/390 hardware. "From an application development or a customer's perspective, these are still distributed systems. You can have a back-end OS/390 system with front- end Linux-based application development and Web application server environments, and you can integrate them into a single S/390 hardware, and they can communicate with each other taking advantage of the low-latency, high-bandwidth pipes on the hardware system itself," Rao says. nwfusion.com Mainframe+Open Systems Storage 1999 2004 EMC 48% (5.8 PB) 45% ( 65 PB) IBM 21% (2.5 PB) 38% ( 55 PB) Hitachi 26% (3.1 PB) 15% ( 22 PB) Others 5% (0.6 PB) 2% ( 3 PB) Total 100% (12 PB) 100% (145 PB) PB = Petabytes 1 PB = 1,000 Terabytes 1 TB = 1,000 Gigabytes Hardware costs: 1999 - $0.09/MB to $0.22/MB 2004 - $0.01/MB to $0.025/MB Annual price decline = 30% to 40% Storage Management costs = 2x to 10x hardware costs Source: MetaGroup