
Chapter 1. The new mainframe 3
Compatibility with mainframe operating systems, applications, and data.
Centralized control of resources.
Hardware and operating systems that can share access to disk drives with
other systems, with automatic locking and protection against destructive
simultaneous use of disk data.
A style of operation, often involving dedicated operations staff who use highly
organized procedures for backup and recovery, training, and disaster
recovery at an alternate site.
Hardware and operating systems that routinely work with hundreds or
thousands of simultaneous I/O operations.
Clustering technologies that allow the ...