Hitachi claims the most powerful mainframe on the planet

"Enterprises that require the highest levels of availability and scalability, complemented by sophisticated configuration management -- airlines, financial services companies, any company with a large stake in e-business -- will find the Hitachi Skyline Trinium the only option fulfilling all categories," said Alan Cade, vice president and general manager, Hitachi Data Systems Enterprise Server Business Unit. "The incredible flexibility of Trinium Technology opens up a myriad of business opportunities previously not available with other technologies and software cost constraints. "

Trinium has the ability to execute up to 320,000 simultaneous input/output (I/O) operations per second -- more than any other system in the S/390(R) environment -- increasing the opportunity for users to conduct a greater number of revenue-producing e-business transactions.

Trinium is 25.9 percent more scalable than competing S/390 mainframes from IBM and 121 percent more scalable than any currently available Amdahl/Fujitsu systems.

Also available with the Trinium is the Hitachi iSuite(TM), a group of infrastructure solutions designed to complement the power of the Trinium in areas such as e-business, ERP, enterprise and server consolidation, business continuity, and software asset management.

Trinium features Hitachi's Virtual Server Facility (VSF(TM)), which helps customers more efficiently manage their software assets by enabling users to be charged based on the number of processors used by each licensed software product, rather than the system's overall capacity. Utilizing Physical Instruction Processor Isolation Technology, VSF allows clients to set precise boundaries within each processor and assign model identifiers.

Users can employ one Virtual Server as a data warehouse, another as a World Wide Web server, another to facilitate electronic transaction processing, and another for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications.

Trinium allows for the definition of up to 15 discrete Virtual Servers within a single footprint. Currently, Computer Associates International, BMC Software, ISM, Candle Corporation, Compuware, Isogon, and Information Builders have endorsed VSF, providing asset management flexibility to common clients.