IBM Breaks Double Digit Performance Barrier With 10 Million Transactions Per Minute

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 37 views

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today an IBM POWER7-based system with IBM DB2 database software and IBM System Storage broke all previous records and topped the 10 million transactions per minute mark using the industry standard TPC performance benchmark, easily besting all results previously achieved by competitors such as HP and Oracle.

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IBM Power7 and Apple’s ARM A4: The Advantages of Having Your Own Processor

Posted by Mike on Monday, February 8, 2010 - 98 views

It also turned out to be vastly easier to move older legacy mainframe applications to newer mainframes than to rewrite them. This, too, helped assure that … MORE