Mantissa z86VM Virtualization Leverages IBM zEC12 and z/VM
Windows on System z
May 10, 2010
In 2008, Mantissa announced on the IBMVM discussion list they were creating an Intel-on-z/VM product called z/VOS. The news generated restrained excitement. Intel machines had seriously threatened the mainframe’s existence for decades, so embracing the newly hosted platform wasn’t necessarily attractive. Yet, replacing dozens or hundreds of “squatty little boxes” with virtual machines under z/VM was an exciting concept and could further aid the resurgence of the mainframe, as has Linux on System z.
Mantissa puts Microsoft Windows on a mainframe
March 4, 2009
Software that for the first time lets users run native copies of the Windows operating systems on a mainframe will be introduced Friday by datacenter automation vendor Mantissa.
Well, this article was a bit premature, but expresses the goals of z86VM.
Sneaking Through the Skunkworks: A Secret Mainframe/Thin Client Project
April 30, 2012
Especially noteworthy about the STASH design is that it capitalizes on IBM’s System z virtualization, security and reliability features, including global mirroring. The goal is to provide a desktop hosting environment ….Ultimately, through use of the z86VM product from Mantissa, a complete reduction in servers necessary to host PCs may be possible. Perhaps 50,000 desktops could be supported across four mainframes instead of 500 virtualized x86 servers.
Well, this article was also a bit premature, but, it too, expresses the goals of z86VM.
