Before "cloud" I worked with one government agency who moved from z/OS to "virtualisation on utility platform" - basically x86 on-prem. They found they needed more x86 capacity than they planned for, and then had 3 vendors to worry about. I got involved in a performance problem and could see about 10% of the I/Os were taking over 500 ms. Each vendor pointed to another vendor as the problem. I think it cost them lots of money in fines because they did not meet the performance targets. I don't think they solved the performance problem - they re-architected to fix it. Colin
On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 at 16:16, Bfishing <[email protected]> wrote: > Not spending $400 million in one place to spend 2x, 3x... more in another > is how I have seen the statistics work for some orgs, noting different > amounts of spend of course. > > Please note that I have no insight into things at FedEx or how this was > calculated. > It will be interesting to see, if shared, how well they meet expectations. > > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 8:37 AM Bill Johnson < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > That number was announced at their investors meeting 2 weeks ago. Trying > > so hard to get the stock back over 300. And trying to get a multiple like > > UPS. There’s no way they achieve 400 million annually. > > > > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > > > > On Friday, July 8, 2022, 8:07 AM, Usher, Darrold < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hard to believe saving $400 million annually. I assume they are factoring > > in Microsoft Azure costs. > > > > Classification: Internal > > > > > > > > Disclaimer: This email and any attachments are the property of USAA and > > may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the > > intended recipient, any use, disclosure or copying of this email or any > > attachments is unauthorized. If you received this email in error, please > > immediately notify the sender and delete the email and any attachments > from > > your computer. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > > Of Bill Johnson > > Sent: Friday, July 8, 2022 6:46 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: FedEx to move entirely to the cloud > > > > 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 $400 million annually. > > > > The insinuation being the “cloud” will replace servers. When the reality > > is, FEDEX is simply outsourcing to MSFT. Everything will still be done > via > > servers . Data centers are everywhere and are still being built. > > > > Plus, this transition started 2-3 years ago. Most of FEDEX’s workload was > > long gone from the mainframe. > > > > Certain people on here salivate when the mainframe loses a customer. > > Including the quasi journalists at the Register. 20 years from now, the > > mainframe will still be processing most of the worlds critical > transactions. > > > > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > > > > On Friday, July 8, 2022, 3:15 AM, David Crayford <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > Bit of a shock this one. FedEx are closing all of their data centers and > > moving to Microsofts Azure Cloud. They are a massive mainframe customer > and > > close friends of ours for a long time. > > We had one of their guys on the floor in our office working with us on > > solutions. Times are changing... > > > > > > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/05/fedex_to_close_all_datacenters/__;!!GryZGb6B1VCs0SfC!XOCQuQOnksIMdlrFxJ8cECEoSR8m_nrVlQLOTXISZcNVGB3SdM2S_RwPUaI1ET5j$ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > > -- > > ><((((º>`·.¸¸´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸>(((º> > .·´¯`·.><((((º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><((((º> > > <>< Go fishing ><> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
