Wednesday 20 April 2011

Who uses Mainframe ??

Just about everyone has used a mainframe computer at one point or another. If you ever used an automated teller machine(ATM) to interact with your bank account, you used a mainframe.

Today, mainframe computers play a central role in the daily operation of most of the world's largest corporation. In banking, finance, health care, insurance, utilities, government and a multitude of other public and private enterprises.
The mainframe computer continues to be the foundation of modern business.

The mainframe owes much of its popularity and longevity to its reliability and stability, a result of careful and steady technological advances. No other computer architecture can claim as much continuous, evolutionary improvement, while maintaining compatibility with previous releases.

Because of these design strengths, the mainframe is often used by IT organizations to host the most important, mission-critical applications. These applications typically include customer order processing, financial transactions, production and inventory control. payroll as well as many other types of work.

Business today rely on the mainframe to :

  1. Perform large-scale transaction processing.
  2. Support thousands of users and application programs concurrently accessing numerous resources.
  3. Manage terabytes of information in databases.
  4. Handle large-bandwidth communication.

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