THE ORIGINAL BIG DATA PLATFORMS

THEN CAME BIG IRON UNIX MIDRANGE

NEXT WE HAD COMMODITY PC CLUSTERS

In the rush from the Dot Com boom, through Web 2.0 to chasing Unicorns, we appear to have forgotten which platform is still powering many of our biggest mission critical systems..

Banking, Wealth Management & InsuranceAirline Booking & Flight ManagementFederal & State Government Retail & ManufacturingMedical SystemsDefense SystemsTransport & LogisticsTelecommunications infrastructure

MAINFRAME IS A DATA WORKHORSE

It’s easy to be fooled by the media’s shift from Big Iron to racks of COTS clusters, into thinking the Mainframe died & went away.. But the data says the Mainframe is here to stay..

70% of enterprise data still resides on a mainframe71% of Fortune 500’s run core business systems on mainframe92 of the top 100 banks still run core banking systems on mainframe23 of the world’s top 25 retailers use mainframe based systems10 out of 10 of the top insurers run their cloud services on mainframes225+ state & local governments worldwide rely on a mainframeMost nations still run their key Defense systems on mainframe

SO WHO STILL USES A MAINFRAME

In a 2015 survey by IDC, 350 CIO’s reported they still owned & managed Mainframes.

It’s likely that this is more than the number of large scale Hadoop clusters currently in production worldwide !!

HADOOP CLUSTERS VS MAINFRAMES?

IN 2015 IBM GAVE US THE MIGHTY Z13

The 3270 text terminal has been replaced by web browsers and mobile apps.. Now we’re adding off the shelf analytics tools..

The Mainframe has been in place for 60 years !!That’s longer than most living IT professional’s careers spanIBM sold 2,300 mainframes in 2002IBM sold 2,700 mainframes in 2013 !!Hadoop & Spark now native on the z13 from IBMIBM are not alone, Unisys, Fujitsu, and Bull still make MainframesIncluding Mainframe platforms in your Big Data strategy is a mustConnectivity & interfaces for your Analytics tools to Mainframe hosted data should be a key part of enterprise & government Big Data plans

NEW TOOLS TALK TO OLD SYSTEMS