What is MainFrame?
MainFrame is a powerful enterprise-level mainframe computing platform typically used by large organizations for running business-critical applications. It is designed to provide extremely high levels of performance, scalability, security and reliability to support mission-critical workloads.
Some key capabilities and benefits of MainFrame include:
- Massive scalability to support huge transaction volumes and large data sets
- Continuous availability with advanced security features to prevent unauthorized access
- Industry-leading price/performance value for running high-volume workloads
- Backward compatibility to leverage existing application investments
- Virtualization and logical partitioning for sharing resources and workload consolidation
- Automated failover and disaster recovery configurations for maximum uptime
- Centralized systems management to reduce IT costs
- Specialized processors and I/O channels for faster throughput
MainFrame is well-suited for a variety of workloads including transaction processing systems, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, banking systems, airline reservations, and other large-scale business applications that demand the highest levels of reliability and performance.
Leading vendors of MainFrame solutions include IBM, Unisys, Hitachi and BMC. Most large banks, insurance companies, telecoms, retailers and public sector organizations rely on MainFrame as the backbone of their IT infrastructure and operations.