Benefits of the MainFrame

There are many benefits to using a mainframe for cloud computing. A few benefits are listed below that you should think about:

• Infrastructure that is adaptable: System z enables a range of extremely secure virtualized environments for cloud implementation, including the z/VM operating system running virtual servers, hypervisors, blade servers, and logical partitions (LPARs), which are assessed at common criteria EAL 5+.
• Scalability: Mainframes offer the perfect platform for big data analytics, data warehousing, production processing, and web applications, supporting millions of users with exceptional performance.It is estimated that up to 70% of corporate production data still resides or originates on the mainframe. As a result, private clouds running on System Z have safe access to crucial data that may be shared when needed with the proper access rules, encryption, data security, masking, and integrity.
  • Support for compliance laws, guidelines, and best practices that call for data encryption, job separation, privileged user monitoring, secure communication protocols, audit reporting, and other things.
  • Availability, dependability, recoverability, security, integrity, and performance are at their highest levels on the current mainframe, making it a very resilient platform.
• Security: Implementing a mainframe private cloud enables better management with a high level of security transparency that gives an enterprise-wide view. Additionally, mainframe clouds can lessen the security risks associated with public clouds that use open networks.
• Migration: The number of distributed systems that need to be controlled is decreased by simply migrating distributed workloads to the mainframe virtualized environment.
• Workload Consolidation: After the virtual environment is optimized, combining different workloads on the mainframe is simple while ensuring any necessary separation between virtual systems. Additionally, this lowers licensing costs compared to distributed systems.
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): A private cloud built on IBM enterprise systems had a 3-year total cost of ownership (TCO) that was 76% lower than the public cloud of a different service provider, according to a study on the simplicity of security management.