Ken Porowski wrote:
I did hear of one company that HAD to move to IFL/z/VM simply because
they could no longer increase power to the datacenter (Power company
restriction). Only other alternative was to move.
A phenomenon known as the $300,000,000 PC.
Frank DiGilio's Mainframe Mythbusting presentation cites the Wall Street
Journal as saying distributed server farms can generate up to 3800 watts
per square foot! A z9 EC generates only 312 watts per square foot. (Less
than 10%.)
--
Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA 90045
310-338-0400 x318
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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
