IBM just announced the DS8800 which uses 2.5 inch drives and is more economical on multiple fronts.
But it's also well worth mentioning that, for a particular end-user-delivered service, on average you'll use considerably fewer gigabytes/terabytes for a z/OS-based solution than for something else. A big reason for that is hardware compression (but not the only reason). How many fewer? It depends, but "considerably." So, like many other attributes of mainframe computing, the math is important. - - - - - Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect STG Value Creation & Complex Deals Team IBM Growth Markets (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
