IBM announces a new mainframe model IBM zEnterprise EC12
IBM's latest mainframe, the zEnterprise EC12, is big on data analytics and hybrid clouds.
This system announced Tuesday, includes a new 5.5-GHz, six-core processor, versus the 5.2-GHz, quad-core processor that shipped with the zEnterprise 196, announced two years ago last month.
This may be the world's fastest commercial processor, say analysts. Despite this, it is not as big a jump in sheer clock rate as some of the earlier leaps in mainframe CPU speed.
The zEnterprise EC12 features a number of interesting improvements including the ability to use analytics to automatically improve system health and performance, bolstered security and features that let the system save electricity. IBM noted that the system improvements represent over $1 billion in IBM research and development efforts.
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