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Overview The Mainframe has long been an unacknowledged and underappreciated datacenter workhorse. But, rising energy costs and a renewed focus on operational performance are revealing the inefficiencies inherent in distributed processors whether the metric is utilization, footprint, or power to performance ratios. The low entry price of System z9 Business Class mainframes heightened interest in many market segments. IBM Tivoli's announcements of broad range of detailed monitoring, management and reporting capabilities provide financial details for mainframe advocates. This paper discusses the management tools, documentation techniques, reduced prices, architectural advantages and enhanced capabilities that make a case for the mainframe systems that even the most hardcore distributed server advocates cannot ignore.

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Publisher	Ptak, Noel & Associates	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mainframes, Data Center

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