Sentence examples for a new mainframe from inspiring English sources

IBM seems to be betting that a new mainframe in a modern package will help keep the market going.

IBM's sales inched up only 4% last year but 16% in the first half of 1999, reflecting a new mainframe line and a rebound in PCs.

IBM's sales inched up 4% last year but 16% in the first half of 1999, reflecting a new mainframe line and a rebound in PCs.

In June — only ten months after debuting the G5 — IBM will introduce the G6, a new mainframe whose copper-circuited chips and updated operating software will deliver a 50% boost in performance.

In a time when IBM has been dumping its x86 server business, and the mainframe would seem a relic of a bygone day, Big Blue took five years and invested a cool $1B to develop a new mainframe beast for the modern mobile era.

Being able to plug a Unix machine into the new mainframe should make doing such complex applications easier and less expensive, said Niels Simanis, a senior technology manager at Danske Bank, a large bank based in Denmark.

In the fourth quarter of 2011, without a new model, mainframe revenue dropped 31 percent from the previous year.

IBM hasn't given up on hardware altogether — it announced a new Z13 Mainframe earlier this year — but clearly, much like HP, it's starting to look at other areas as the markets shift away from the highly profitable hardware business.

The new mainframe design, said Rodney C. Adkins, an I.B.M. senior vice president, is mainly "about data center integration, being able to treat the data center as a single system".

But new mainframe and Unix models are being introduced soon, opening the door to a possible rebound in hardware sales.

He sees good prospects for the company because "I.B.M. is rolling out its new mainframe".