Re:IBM Launches New Mainframe with Focus on Security and Hyb...
by protomyth on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @05:16PM
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Some quotes from the link scott_s provided:
"The company's CEO said the total cost of ownership of the new mainframes is about 50% lower than that of the company's sprawling server farm."
"However, mission-critical workloads that typically run on mainframes aren't a good match for public clouds, because mainframes are far more reliable. Public clouds such as Amazon's Amazon Web Services sometimes undergo unscheduled outages, and often the system must be rebooted in order to apply security patches or upgrades. For companies that require 100% uptime, public clouds simply aren't feasible."
"The company's CEO said the total cost of ownership of the new mainframes is about 50% lower than that of the company's sprawling server farm."
"However, mission-critical workloads that typically run on mainframes aren't a good match for public clouds, because mainframes are far more reliable. Public clouds such as Amazon's Amazon Web Services sometimes undergo unscheduled outages, and often the system must be rebooted in order to apply security patches or upgrades. For companies that require 100% uptime, public clouds simply aren't feasible."