Re:IBM Z mainframes revived by Red Hat, AI and security
by lsllc on Thursday August 20, 2020 @12:16PM
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IBM should stop trying to copy AWS/Azure/GCP with their cloud offerings and instead offered a "mainframe" based cloud, they might get more traction. Customers could submit their COBOL/CICS jobs and just pay for the cpu milliseconds or I/O blocks used etc. getting the cloud scale and elasticity for a mainframe without having to actually "own" a mainframe. I guess that's where AWS is going with some of their ML & analytic offerings (batch oriented, but not mainframe based).
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Re:IBM Z mainframes revived by Red Hat, AI and security
by lboc on Thursday August 20, 2020 @01:51PM
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The 'service bureau' does what you're talking about, and has done for a very long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_bureau#Histories
I have no idea about the current level of activity in this sector (mainframe proceesing as a service), but would not be at all surprised to find it greatly diminished from it's heyday when dinosaurs roamed the raised floor.
I don't think it takes a huge leap to draw a connection between these businesses and the cloud providers of today.
Re:IBM Z mainframes revived by Red Hat, AI and security
by bobbydreamer on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:07PM
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IBM cloud for learners itself not cheap that's the problem. But the thing is they cannot do it like that each software takes a huge load on the lpar/Plex and run as a subsystem. So cost of running a small stack itself will be huge. Now they got zVM don't know how effective that is, but currently it helps Devops process.
Generally Billing is in peak MIPS.