Fact 1
89% of mainframe customers planned to keep their mainframes for at least five more years, with more than a third of them intending to keep their mainframes for 10 - 20 or more years.
** 2014 Vanson Bourne study
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Fact 2
IBM predicts that approximately 37,200 new mainframe administration positions will emerge worldwide by 2020.
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Fact 3
62% of data center organizations recognize that they will have a skills shortage within the next five years.
** IBM internal study
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Fact 4
IBM has invested more than $10 million in its Academic Initiative, a program that involves over 1000 colleges and universities in 67 countries, and over 68,000 students.
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Fact 5
IBM's 2014 Master the Mainframe competition involved 20,000 students from 6 continents. It culminated in 43 finalists vying for the coveted World Champion title in New York City.
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Fact 6
Every second, 1.1 million high-volume customer transactions occur on mainframes. To put this into perspective, Google experiences almost 60,000 searches per second.
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Fact 7
Each year, IBM mainframes handle $23 billion worth of ATM transactions and $6 trillion in credit and debit card transactions.
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Fact 8
More than 70% of global Fortune 500 companies use the mainframe to run their core business functions.
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Fact 9
IBM sells mainframes to cloud service providers, who focus on delivering large scale Linux environments.
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Fact 10
The latest enterprise IBM EC12 mainframe can execute more than 78,000 millions of instructions per second (MIPS).
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Fact 11
In the FIFA 2014 World Cup, 14 cameras are set up to capture goal mouth action. The data from these cameras is sent to a mainframe computer that analyzes each goal, and in turn sends a signal to a watch worn by the referee to confirm that a goal has been scored.
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Fact 12
96 of the world's top 100 banks, 23 of the top25 US retailers and 9 of the world's 10 largest insurance companies, run System z.
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