Mainframes entered the market in the early 1950's when IBM and the seven dwarfs (Burroughs, Unisys, NCR, Control Data, Honeywell, GE, and RCA) created the computing age and competed for critical ...

This zEnterprise 114 is primarily competing against a Linux server running on an x86 platform, said Kahn. “The large growth in mainframe consumption has been on what IBM calls new workloads or ...