IBM zEnterprise 196
July 25th, 2010
On Friday we announced our new IBM zEnterprise 196.
While many things are new I believe the most important change was that for the first time ever we bring the management of the IBM System z down to distributed workloads. zLinux was already a great way to run Linux workloads on System z, but with this capability we make it possible to manage workloads through a single system and use the capabilities of System x blades to extend mainframe capabilities and their associated management capabilities into distributed CPU-intensive workloads.
I find it highly interesting that a major enabler for this integration was the wide adoption and availability of a key mainframe technology on x86 systems – virtualization.
The introduction to zOS course I’m taking is getting more and more timely by the day :-)
You can read more about the hybrid support of the zEnterprise in Jim Porell’s guest post on our Smarter Planet blog.