virtualization

The acronymization can do your head in, and new wordage is rife, but “virtualization” could be one to keep your cynical head away from. There are a lot of vendors vying for your attention with this word, and yes there is hype in the press but if you start at the top and take a cool look at IBMs standpoint then you will quickly see this is something to be taken very seriously. Virtualization, in its broad sense, is about decoupling processing from the technicalities of the platforms on which it is being hosted. In the “bring back the mainframe, all is forgiven” new world we find ourselves in, this can mean Virtual networks running on the z9 or zSERIES Mainframe – with everything sucked back in to the place that is most secure and powerful. With things like Integrated Facilities for Linux and Specialist Java Execution environments zAAPs running on their own partitions – who needs all that massively distributed architecture ? Hipersockets can give you virtual TCP/IP at mainframe address move speeds – keep an eye on this one ! Learn more at MainframeUpgrade
A good paper to read on this is from SOFTWARE STRATEGIES . Also look at IBMs view .

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