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The IBM z16 mainframe lives up to its reputation for delivering “zero downtime.”   The latest z16 server, introduced in April 2022, delivers nine nines—99.9999999%—of uptime and reliability. This is just over 30 milliseconds – 31.56 milliseconds to be precise – of per server annual downtime, according to the results of the ITIC 2023 Global […]

For the fourth straight year, enterprises ranked mission critical servers from IBM, Lenovo, Huawei and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (in that order) as the most secure platforms which experienced the least amount of successful data breaches and proved the most formidable for hackers to crack. Only a miniscule 0.1% of IBM Z mainframes suffered unplanned downtime due […]

Reliability/Uptime by the Numbers Organizations measure server and application reliability percentages in “nines.” There is an order of magnitude difference of server and application reliability and uptime between each additional “nine.”  Four nines – 99.99% – reliability equals 52.56 minutes of unplanned per server/per annum downtime or 4.32 minutes of per server monthly unplanned downtime (See […]

The IBM Z and IBM Power Systems continue to dominate, delivering the best server reliability, uptime and security for the 14th straight year. Lenovo’s ThinkSystem servers provide the top reliability and security among all x86 server distributions for nearly nine straight years. Huawei KunLun, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) Superdome mission critical servers also register high reliability […]

  Cloud computing has been a part of the corporate and consumer lexicon for the past 15 years. Despite this, many organizations and their users are still fuzzy on the finer points of cloud usage and terminology. De-mystifying the cloud So what exactly is a cloud computing environment? The simplest and most straightforward definition is […]