The area of the computing business that focuses on the creation, production, and sale of mainframe systems is referred to as the mainframe market. Large-scale, high-performance computing platforms called mainframes are developed to manage demanding workloads for businesses across a variety of sectors.
These systems are a top choice for sectors including banking, finance, healthcare, and government owing to their superior reliability, scalability, and security features. Moreover, mainframes are separated by their capacity to manage thousands of concurrent users and process enormous volumes of data. These systems have unmatched scalability, enabling businesses to increase their processing capacity as necessary without sacrificing performance. Mainframes are appropriate for sectors that demand powerful processing capabilities since they can meet the increasing demands of data-intensive applications.
Mainframes are known for their dependability, which is an essential aspect in the industry. To ensure continuous functioning, mainframes are built with redundant parts such as power supply and CPUs. In addition, to avoid data loss and save downtime, they also have sophisticated error detection and correction mechanisms. For industries that cannot afford operational disruptions, this high level of dependability is crucial. Continuous innovation and modernization initiatives by mainframe suppliers are essentially defining the mainframe market. The vendors make research and development investments to improve mainframe performance, expand their capabilities, and support new technologies.
Now that mainframes are connected with cloud computing, AI, and analytics, businesses may benefit from new technologies while using the dependability and scalability of mainframes. Furthermore, another important factor in the mainframe market is security. Sensitive data is safeguarded by strong security measures on mainframes against unauthorized access, breaches, and online dangers. To maintain the integrity and security of data, these systems contain strict access controls, encryption capabilities, and auditing procedures. Mainframes offer dependable platforms for businesses to handle and store their vital data in light of the growing data security issues. These factors have significantly boosted the growth of the mainframe market.
The mainframe market is segmented on the basis of type, end user, and region. By type, it is divided into Z systems, GS series, and others. By end user, it is classified into BFSI, IT and telecom, government and public sector, retail and e-commerce, travel and transportation, manufacturing, and others. By region, it is analyzed across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and LAMEA.
The global mainframe industry is dominated by key players such as International Business Machines Corporation, Broadcom, DXC Technology Company, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Atos Se, Dell Inc., HCL Technologies Limited, BMC Software, Inc., Cognizant. These players have adopted various strategies to increase their market penetration and strengthen their position in the mainframe market.
These systems are a top choice for sectors including banking, finance, healthcare, and government owing to their superior reliability, scalability, and security features. Moreover, mainframes are separated by their capacity to manage thousands of concurrent users and process enormous volumes of data. These systems have unmatched scalability, enabling businesses to increase their processing capacity as necessary without sacrificing performance. Mainframes are appropriate for sectors that demand powerful processing capabilities since they can meet the increasing demands of data-intensive applications.
Mainframes are known for their dependability, which is an essential aspect in the industry. To ensure continuous functioning, mainframes are built with redundant parts such as power supply and CPUs. In addition, to avoid data loss and save downtime, they also have sophisticated error detection and correction mechanisms. For industries that cannot afford operational disruptions, this high level of dependability is crucial. Continuous innovation and modernization initiatives by mainframe suppliers are essentially defining the mainframe market. The vendors make research and development investments to improve mainframe performance, expand their capabilities, and support new technologies.
Now that mainframes are connected with cloud computing, AI, and analytics, businesses may benefit from new technologies while using the dependability and scalability of mainframes. Furthermore, another important factor in the mainframe market is security. Sensitive data is safeguarded by strong security measures on mainframes against unauthorized access, breaches, and online dangers. To maintain the integrity and security of data, these systems contain strict access controls, encryption capabilities, and auditing procedures. Mainframes offer dependable platforms for businesses to handle and store their vital data in light of the growing data security issues. These factors have significantly boosted the growth of the mainframe market.
The mainframe market is segmented on the basis of type, end user, and region. By type, it is divided into Z systems, GS series, and others. By end user, it is classified into BFSI, IT and telecom, government and public sector, retail and e-commerce, travel and transportation, manufacturing, and others. By region, it is analyzed across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and LAMEA.
The global mainframe industry is dominated by key players such as International Business Machines Corporation, Broadcom, DXC Technology Company, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Atos Se, Dell Inc., HCL Technologies Limited, BMC Software, Inc., Cognizant. These players have adopted various strategies to increase their market penetration and strengthen their position in the mainframe market.
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Key Market Segments
By End User
- Others
- BFSI
- IT and Telecom
- Government and Public Sector
- Retail and E-commerce
- Travel and Transportation
- Manufacturing
By Type
- Z Systems
- GS Series
- Others
By Region
- North America
- U.S.
- Canada
- Europe
- UK
- Germany
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Rest of Europe
- Asia-Pacific
- China
- Japan
- India
- Australia
- South Korea
- Rest of Asia-Pacific
- LAMEA
- Latin America
- Middle East
- Africa
Key Market Players
- BMC Software, Inc.
- Broadcom
- Cognizant
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- DXC Technology Company
- Fujitsu
- Dell Inc.
- Atos SE
- HCL Technologies Limited
- International Business Machines Corporation
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
CHAPTER 3: MARKET OVERVIEW
CHAPTER 4: MAINFRAME MARKET, BY TYPE
CHAPTER 5: MAINFRAME MARKET, BY END USER
CHAPTER 6: MAINFRAME MARKET, BY REGION
CHAPTER 7: COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
CHAPTER 8: COMPANY PROFILES
List of Tables
List of Figures
Executive Summary
According to this report, the mainframe market was valued at $2.9 billion in 2022, and is estimated to reach $5.6 billion by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 7.3% from 2023 to 2032.Mainframes have been continuously evolving for more than 40 years to address many issues associated with data processing. Mainframes guarantee scalability, dependability and availability of processes. Mainframes systems are reliable owing to their capability of processing billions of transactions with near-perfect accuracy and no downtime. Therefore, despite the development of fresh technologies such as cloud computing, mainframe has been able to maintain its position in the IT infrastructure across a variety of end users. Moreover, mainframes also have self-checking and self-recovery characteristics, which allow these systems to automatically run on failures and choose the appropriate next course of action without requiring human input. With its ability to increase memory, storage, and processors without affecting the volume and accuracy of the data, mainframe provides the maximum level of scalability.
Additionally, the innovations have been driving the demand for mainframes and for high-performance computing equipment. The development of mainframe applications in emerging technologies such as AI, ML, block chain, and many others, is also contributing to the market's expansion. High scalability, reliability, and stability for corporate operations, as well as an increase in cyberattacks and data breaches has significantly propelled the market growth. Thus, due to the rapid expansion of digitalization across a number of industries, including BFSI, healthcare, and many others, the mainframe market is growing significantly.
Moreover, rise in demand of high-performance computing, development of IoT landscape, increase in large data sets, and growth in adoption of mainframe as a service. Furthermore, cost issues associated with mainframe solutions and lack of mainframe skilled professionals are expected to considerably impact the growth of the mainframe market during the forecast period. Moreover, on-going mainframe modernization and the integration of blockchain in mainframe are expected to be opportunistic for the global mainframe market during the forecast period. These factors collectively provide opportunities for market growth. However, each factor has its definite impact on the market.
On the basis of end user, the BFSI segment dominated the mainframe market in 2022 and is expected to continue this trend during the forecast period, owing variety of developments and possibilities influencing its function in this business, the mainframe is still a major technology in the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) sector. However, the retail and e-commerce segment is expected to exhibit the highest growth during the forecast period, owing to upsurge among online retailers for different tasks such as handling enormous volumes of transactions.
By region, North America is anticipated to account for the largest share of the mainframe market during the forecast period, owing to high mainframe spending among financial organizations and retail industry supported by rise in number of online transactions and increase in adoption of mainframes to face numerous challenges associated with such extreme complex and dynamic environment. However, Asia-Pacific segment is expected to witness the highest growth, owing to growing finance industry supported by rising mobile and credit card transactions in China and India are the major factors that fuel the growth of the mainframe market.
The mainframe market has been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mainframes played a significant part in guaranteeing the continuity and reliability of crucial operations as organizations around the world dealt with the difficulties of remote workforces and a rise in reliance on digital processes. The increased demand for dependable and secure computer systems was one of COVID-19's major effects on the mainframe market.
Organizations needed to make sure that their mainframe infrastructure could handle the unexpected surge in remote work and support secure remote access. Mainframes, which are renowned for their dependability and strong security features, have become even more crucial for preserving company operations and safeguarding critical data. The pandemic also increased the demand for mainframe systems scalability. Processing needs fluctuated as organizations adjusted to shifting market circumstances and client expectations. Organizations were able to quickly adapt their processing capability to suit these changing needs because to mainframes intrinsic scalability, enabling effective and unbroken operations. The implementation of digital transformation projects was also driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Key Finding of the Study
By type, the Z Systems segment accounted for the largest mainframe market share in 2022. However, GS Series is expected to exhibit the highest growth during the forecast period.By end user, the BFSI segment accounted for the largest mainframe market size in 2022. However, retail and e-commerce is expected to exhibit the highest growth during the forecast period.
Region wise, North America generated the highest revenue in 2022. Asia-Pacific is expected to exhibit the highest growth during the forecast period.
The market players operating in the mainframe market are International Business Machines Corporation, Broadcom, DXC Technology Company, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Atos SE, Dell Inc., HCL Technologies Limited, BMC Software, Inc., and Cognizant. These major players have adopted various key development strategies such as business expansion, new product launches, and partnerships, which help to drive the growth of the mainframe market globally.
Companies Mentioned
- BMC Software, Inc.
- Broadcom
- Cognizant
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- DXC Technology Company
- Fujitsu
- Dell Inc.
- Atos SE
- HCL Technologies Limited
- International Business Machines Corporation
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