John, At IBM's z Summit Road Show they cite Bank of India and Bank of China and numerous others with cost savings of 1/3 or more.
Server consolidation vis-a-vis virtualization is the rage these days. And this one is real too. I do live in the vicinity of IBM, and even worked there in the distant past, but this is not for IBM. And thank you everyone who has responded on and off list. On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:58 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]>wrote: > I have firsthand, personal knowledge of just one successful > Scandinavian project in which even more ambitious > server-virtualization goals were set and met; but one successful > project---conducted by serious, highly competent people---does > establish the feasibility of such an undertaking. > > It is thus premature and perhaps worse to label this query a joke or > scam of some sort. If it is one, that will emerge; but let's defer > judgment for now. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- George Henke (C) 845 401 5614 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
