ARMONK,
N.Y., June 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that corporate enterprise users
ranked IBM z Systems' enterprise mainframe class' servers the most
reliable hardware platform available on the market today. In its
'mainstream' server category the survey found that IBM Power
Systems achieved the highest levels of reliability and uptime when
compared with 14 server hardware options and 11 server hardware
virtualization platforms.
The results come from the ITIC 2017 Global
Server Hardware and Server OS Reliability
survey1, which polled 750
organizations worldwide between April and May of 2017. The survey
findings also concluded the following:
- IBM z Systems Enterprise mainframe
class systems had zero percent incidents of more than four
hours of per server/per annum downtime of any hardware
platform. Specifically, IBM z Systems mainframe class servers
exhibit true mainframe fault tolerance experiencing just 0.96
minutes of minutes of unplanned per server, per
annual downtime. That equates to 8 seconds per month or "blink and
you miss it," or 2 seconds of unplanned weekly downtime. This is an
improvement over the 1.12 minutes of per server/per annum downtime
the z Systems servers recorded in ITIC's 2016 – 2017 Reliability
poll nine months ago.
- IBM Power Systems has the least amount
of unplanned downtime, with 2.5 minutes per server/per
year of any mainstream Linux server platforms.
- IBM and the Linux operating system
distributions were either first or second in
every reliability category, including virtualization and
security.
In addition to identifying leading vendors, the survey
highlights market 'reliability trends'.For nearly all companies
surveyed, having 'four nines' of availability, equating to less
than one hour of system downtime per year was a key factor in its
decision. Further are the increasing costs of downtime. Nearly all
survey respondents claimed that one hour of downtime costs them
more than $150k and one third
estimating that the same will cost their business up to
$400k.
To learn more about the IBM z Systems
visit http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/.To
learn more about IBM Power Systems
visit www.ibm.com/power.
1 – For more information on the 'ITIC 2017 Global Server
Hardware and Server OS Reliability survey' visit
https://ibm.biz/Bdi9hU.
Media Contact:
Greg Vitarelli
IBM Media Relations
617-455-9627
vitarelli@us.ibm.com
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SOURCE IBM