6 Introduction to the New Mainframe: Large-Scale Commercial Computing
applications typically include client order processing, financial transactions,
production and inventory control, payroll, as well as many other types of work.
Many of today’s busiest Web sites store their production databases on a
mainframe host. New mainframe hardware and software are ideal for Web
transactions because they are designed to allow huge numbers of users and
applications to rapidly and simultaneously access the same data without
interfering with each other. This security, scalability, and reliability is critical to the
efficient and secure operation of contemporary information processing.
Corporations use mainframes for applications that depend on scalability ...