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Mainframe business critical and India a vital cog: IBM's Ric Lewis
While many consider it a legacy technology, and perhaps no longer at the forefront of today's technology conversations, it remains indispensable to innovation in enterprise businesses
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Indian engineers have been instrumental in the development of IBM’s Telum II processor, which powers the company’s latest mainframe, the Z17, as well as the Spyre accelerator.
India plays a crucial role in modernising IBM’s mainframes, which form the backbone of some of the most critical applications in industries such as banking, airlines, retail, and government.
While many consider it a legacy technology, and perhaps no longer at the forefront of today's technology conversations, it remains indispensable to innovation in enterprise businesses.
According to a recent report from the IBM Institute for Business Value, 43 of the world’s top 50 banks and 8 of the top 10 payment companies rely on mainframes as their core platform. In fact, 70-80% of the world’s transaction data still resides on
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