News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on New IBM LinuxONE 4 Express – Rack-mounted pre-configured Linux mainframe. Parent comment

Re:New IBM LinuxONE 4 Express – Rack-mounted pre-configured ... by wmf on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @04:18PM (#39280774)
You are almost certainly better off buying a low-end mainframe than hiring a team of engineers to build yet another not-great data replication/recovery/HA system.

To be clear, this only applies to regular mainframes running z/OS. LinuxONE machines, as the name implies, only run Linux where you'll have all the usual devops/SRE responsibilities.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:New IBM LinuxONE 4 Express – Rack-mounted pre-configured ... by rbanffy on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @05:52PM (#39281991)
The machines are still incredibly reliable, much more than a rack full of Dells.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:New IBM LinuxONE 4 Express – Rack-mounted pre-configured ... by themoonisachees on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @03:26AM (#39285971)
How so? What problems have IBM solved that dell can't figure out? In my experience sysadmin/SRE work is rarely about the reliability of the hardware and much more about machine management like predicting when you're running out of disk space etc.
[ Parent | on HN ]