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IBM is eager to be seen as a suitable cloud platform, and it’s been adjusting its prices accordingly. It
announced the IBM Enterprise Cloud System for about $75,000 last summer. This is very similar to
the machine that cost $1 million back in 2003. The Enterprise Cloud System includes a Linux server
and the so-called IBM Cloud Management Suite, which includes software for the configuration and
deployment of virtual machines.

The recent zEnterprise EC12 is typical of the kinds of machines IBM turns out today. Its
development represents an investment of more than a billion dollars. It’s incredibly fast—more than
78,000 million instructions per second. It has special cryptographic abilities which permit it to be
ultra secure and to process signatures and passports. It monitors itself and recognizes any unusual
deviations in behavior. It can ramp up to provide maximum availability during periods of heavy use.
It has special processing to support concurrent transactions. It has the world’s fastest chip. It’s
cloud ready.

It all makes you wonder—maybe IBM won’t just be around in 10 years, maybe it will be more
dominant than ever. One thing’s for certain—the technology developed by IBM is going to remain a
force to be reckoned with for many, many years to come, and how IBM technology is to be
integrated with the rest of the technological landscape is an issue that won’t go away soon (if ever).

About the Author

Mike Miranda is a writer and pr person for Rocket Software.

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