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Blake told me he tapped <https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tapped> Amy last night and i was like " wazi bro <https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wazi%20bro>" as i couldn't believe what <https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whay> he was saying. Srsly, between "Kyndryl" and this, someone is overpaying IBM's marketing people. On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 1:58 AM Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote: > IBM is announcing the upcoming availability of new and improved > "on-demand" IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE operating system instances. Here are > the highlights as I see them.... > > IBM Wazi-as-a-Service will provide z/OS instances running on IBM Cloud. > Yes, you'll be able to get your very own z/OS instance(s) within just a > few minutes, as an on-demand "walk up" service, for development and > testing. IBM intends to introduce this service soon, likely generally > available in the second half of 2022. IBM has put (and is putting) a lot > of effort into making the experience really easy for developers to > consume, so the "on ramp" will be a lot gentler, too. However, you'll > still be able to run customized z/OS instances if/when you want to do > something "special." > > Importantly, although IBM Wazi-as-a-Service is not designed, intended, or > licensed for uses beyond development and testing, the performance > characteristics (to run compile jobs, for example) are much more > consistent with real IBM Z servers than with the IBM Z Development & Test > Environment (ZD&TE) or ZPDT on X86-64 servers. I'll give you one guess why > that might be. :-) Preliminary test results indicate about 15X faster > compilation of Java applications, 12X faster for C, and 8X faster for > COBOL. For reasons of efficiency and deployability in the way we run these > z/OS instances you could see some performance "oddities" if you push hard > in certain ways, but the overall experience should be terrific. > > The Statement of Direction is available here: > > > https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/US-ENUS222-097-CA/name/US-ENUS222-097-CA.PDF > > Press release here: > > > https://newsroom.ibm.com/2022-02-14-IBM-Simplifies-Modernization-of-Mission-Critical-Applications-for-Hybrid-Cloud > > More information here: > > https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/MVK9YK8Q > > https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/announcements/ibm-cloud-delivers-a-new-era-of-modernization-with-ibm-z > > As you can see this Statement of Direction has more supplementary > materials than IBM typically offers. Typically it's just the Statement. > Not this time. > > Anticipating a few popular questions, I expect that the permitted uses > will hew to ZD&TE terms, so (for example) training/education uses should > be perfectly fine. (Want for example to teach a course on HLASM and have > each student fire up his/her own z/OS instance? As far as I know that > should be fine, but we'll see for sure when GA arrives.) No pricing has > been announced yet, but a major objective is to make IBM Z and IBM > LinuxONE more accessible, easier to consume, and easier to use. That also > means more granular pricing, so that if you only need a little z/OS you > don't have to pay for a lot. And this Statement of Direction doesn't > affect the availability of ZD&TE (including the new ZD&TE Learners > Edition) or ZPDT. Parallel Sysplex configurations? We hear you/let's > see/may need time. > > IBM will also introduce LinuxONE Bare Metal Servers. IBM LinuxONE Bare > Metal Servers provide customers with whole dedicated Linux LPARs on IBM > Cloud, on-demand. This offering is intended for workloads that require > high-performance, single-tenancy computing resources with more predictable > capacity. And there are more LinuxONE server instance types coming (or > even available already) with more flexibility in more locations. > > As always, refer to the official IBM materials for anything official. > IBM's plans are subject to change. My personal views are my own. > > - - - - - - - - - - > Timothy Sipples > I.T. Architect Executive > Digital Asset & Other Industry Solutions > IBM Z & LinuxONE > - - - - - - - - - - > E-Mail: [email protected] > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
