# 🖥️ Mainframes Find New Life in AI Era

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/mainframes-find-new-life-in-ai-era/288495>\
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**Tags:** ai\
**Created:** [August 7, 2024, 6:19am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/mainframes-find-new-life-in-ai-era/288495 "2024-08-07T06:19:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 6:19am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/mainframes-find-new-life-in-ai-era/288495/1 "2024-08-07T06:19:48Z")

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**Summary:**

**1. Growing Relevance in AI:**

- Mainframe computers, essential for high-speed data processing, are being repurposed for AI applications by banks, insurers, and airlines.
- IBM, dominating 96% of the mainframe market, saw a 6% growth in its mainframe business last quarter with its latest zSystem capable of 30,000 transactions per second and holding 40 terabytes of data.

**2. Market Trends and Projections:**

- The global mainframe market was valued at $3.05 billion in 2023, with new mainframe sales expected to decline through 2028.
- Despite this, 54% of enterprise leaders surveyed in 2023 plan to increase their mainframe usage over the next two years.

**3. Limitations and Challenges:**

- Mainframes are limited by their internal computing power and don’t scale like cloud solutions.
- They are also complex and costly to manage due to outdated code and poor integration with new applications.

**Read more at:** [msn.com](https://msn.com)