IBM Press Room – IBM today announced that corporate enterprise users ranked IBM z Systems ‘enterprise mainframe class’ servers the most reliable hardware platform available on the market today. In its ‘mainstream’ server category the survey found that IBM Power Systems achieved the highest levels of reliability…
In addition to identifying leading vendors, the survey highlights market ‘reliability trends’ . For nearly all companies surveyed, having ‘four nines’ of availability, equating to less than one hour of system downtime per year was a key factor in its decision. Further are the increasing costs of downtime. Nearly all survey respondents claimed that one hour of downtime costs them more than $150k and one third estimating that the same will cost their business up to $400k. .
