Do blade servers running say z/Pdt and z/os compete with real z/os in cycles and I/O ..?
Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Sep 3, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Richard Hintz <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Mark Post <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Sep 2012 15:46:35 -0600 >> Then you haven't looked deeply enough. Software licensing for middleware >> significantly favors running on Linux on >System z. Many other costs such >> has power, cooling, floor space, people, inventory tracking, networking >> hardware, >disaster recovery, provisioning and retirement, etc., also favor >> System z. The challenge, as it always has been, is to pick >the right tool >> for the job, and not assume that a particular tool is always the right one >> OR the wrong one. > > Do you have something or can point me to something that shows comparative > metrics for these, especially: > --power/cooling > --floor space > --people > --networking hardware (I really don't understand this, since I would have > thought the networking hardware would be external to the device) > --DR > --provisioning > --retirement (not tracking on this, too. See places still running IMS, for > example) > > Thanks. > -- > Rich > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
