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How the mainframe became a surprising platform for innovation
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Some people believe the mainframe is obsolete – an ancient relic of 1960s computing. For others, it serves an important role as long as it sticks to its knitting, handling core transaction processing for banks and other large enterprises.
Take a closer look, however, and you’ll see the mainframe is an active platform for innovation, both by the vendors that develop its software and for mainframe customers that are finding a role for Big Iron in their cloud-native plans for innovation.
Mainframe incumbents make moves
As the sole remaining vendor of mainframe systems, IBM Corp. is largely responsible for the continued growth of its IBM Z mainframe product line (pictured). To open the door to innovation, Big Blue has been rationalizing and lowering mainframe pricing over the last few years, bringing the platform into cost alignment with cloud alternatives.