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To: George Dawson who wrote (16078)	5/4/1998 9:21:00 AM
From: Kelly Igou	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29386

More on the IBM release, from I-Week Daily, 5/4/98 IBM Rolls Out New Mainframe Line Data-center recentralization may be giving IBM a second wind in the mainframe market. With its R6 G5 systems, to be unveiled this week, IBM is targeting customers who want to consolidate distributed systems with lower-cost, CMOS-based mainframes. "This will put IBM back in the picture for the data center," says Dennis Vickers, deputy administrator of IT services for the state of Wisconsin, which plans to create a hot site for disaster recovery in the fall. IBM, which had been losing ground to more advanced technology from Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), will be a contender "for the first time in three or four years," Vickers says. The R6 system uses Fibre Channel connectivity to enhance the availability of IBM's Parallel Sysplex cluster. By using CMOS processors in the Sysplex architecture, each node of the cluster provides up to 900 Mips of performance. There will also be 25 Gbytes of main memory, more flexible coupling for better Sysplex performance, and a 64-bit version of the OS/390 operating system by next year. Says Meta Group analyst Carl Greiner, "IBM is evolving OS/390 to become the super server within the data center." The 900-Mips performance of each R6 node is derived from 10 124-Mips processors, factoring in latency. That doubles the power of the current G4 processor and is in the range of the most powerful HDS Skyline systems. Say Greiner: "This will get IBM back into some of the biggest accounts that it lost to Skyline last year." -- Martin J. Garvey