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Re:The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emul... by CrLf on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @05:48AM (#6095229)
"An EC10 can consolidate several racks of Linux blades into its zVM hypervisor"

So can a couple of beefier blades running VMware, for a fraction of the cost.

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Re:The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emul... by aus_ on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @11:50AM (#6096855)
The killer feature is I/O and proximity to mainframe data. With hipersockets, you get memory-to-memory speed networking to your mainframe data. You just can't replicate that in VMware.
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