67 of the Fortune 100;
45 of the top 50 Banks;
8 of the top 10 Insurers;
8 of the top 10 Telcos;
7 of the top 10 Retailers;
4 of the top 5 Airlines;
use the mainframe.
While it may be one thing to tout usage of a technology by which organizations continue to adopt a technology, IBM has grown usage as measured by MIPS, a method of calculating the raw speed used, by 350% over the past ten years.
Many CIOs Have An "AND" Strategy Not An "OR" Strategy For Hybrid Cloud
The newest mainframes include the latest Fujitsu GS21 series announced April 2018 along with Fujitsu Software GSS21sx V20 which supports connections with open systems. In September 2019, IBM launched the IBM Z15 showcasing key capabilities such as encryption anywhere, cloud native development, and instant recovery. From many conversations with CIOs in healthcare, travel, financial services, and pharma, the mainframe continues to play a key role in their overall modernization strategies. For many of these organizations, they are working with public cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud while keeping their intense workloads on the mainframe for both cost and security reasons.