Summary: Executive Summary: Long live the mainframe! IBM has announced a power-packed new model aimed at your mobile needs. Do you consider them a viable option in your enterprise? Do you have the right Ops skills to support them? Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 25:30 IT Pro News: Facebook at Work is now available Google and Microsoft tussle over disclosures Amazon marketing fails with C4 servers that will blow up More datacenter space is being leased US President Obama asks FCC to improve 25Mb broadband IT Pro Main Topic: Don’t we love mainframes? z13, the mainframe for mobile vintage IBM mainframe commercial for ebusiness The IBM press release for z13 amd the z13 homepage Highlights from the IBM VP of z, Mike Perera modernization, size, power, reliability 10TB RAM, 22nm chips at 5GHz, 100s of cores, each twice as fast as Intel cores, 30-50% faster Java execution, response time 70% faster, encryption twice as fast, run 8000 VMs REST APIs and JSON support built-in with API called Zos Connect for devs to easily access services on the mainframe support C and Java and Node.js and still PL1 and COBOL DB2 large scale support and Hadoop supports zOS and Linux and OpenStack all in combinations TCO one third to two thirds lower than Intel x86 servers or cloud designed process 2.5 billion transactions a day, or about one hundred Cyber Mondays. If you still have a mainframe, is it valuable? If you are all-in for the cloud, do you have an exit strategy, even with OpenStack? Is the Intel based datacenter design still affordable, well engineered? Event Calendar: Microsoft Ignite is in Chicago, IL from May 4-8 Cisco Live US is in San Diego, CA from June 7-11. Is there a conference you think we should be mentioning in this segment? Let us know! IT Pro Bookshelf: What happened with the Amazon phone?, Fast Company Rebels at Work, Kelly and Medina z13 FAQ (100+pp), IBM z13 Technical Guide , IBM
