This is hilarious. The datacenter is dead – at least according to FedEx, which announced plans to close its server farms and transition completely to the cloud, where it hopes to save an estimated $400 million annually.
The insinuation being the “cloud” will replace servers. When the reality is, FEDEX is simply outsourcing to MSFT. Everything will still be done via servers . Data centers are everywhere and are still being built. Plus, this transition started 2-3 years ago. Most of FEDEX’s workload was long gone from the mainframe. Certain people on here salivate when the mainframe loses a customer. Including the quasi journalists at the Register. 20 years from now, the mainframe will still be processing most of the worlds critical transactions. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, July 8, 2022, 3:15 AM, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: Bit of a shock this one. FedEx are closing all of their data centers and moving to Microsofts Azure Cloud. They are a massive mainframe customer and close friends of ours for a long time. We had one of their guys on the floor in our office working with us on solutions. Times are changing... https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/05/fedex_to_close_all_datacenters/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
